Apparently, tennis superstar Serena Williams and actor Jackie Long (or rapper Common) are no longer an item. Maybe I’m the last to know that? Serena wrote a long blog about ridding herself of a relationship and “finding a new me”. Of course we all go through heartbreak, but it’s interesting when it’s someone like Serena – who seems so strong – who suffers the same heartache as normal folk. “You start to trust him,” she wrote on her official website. “Something you have not done since your first heartbreak. Something you vowed you would never do again.
“But slowly your heart comes out of its steel enclosure.
“Weeks turn into months and you no longer talk to anyone else, just him. And then it happens. Not the ‘L’ word. But what you have been most afraid of. ‘What deep in your heart you have been afraid to confront. What you always suspected would happen one day sooner or later. HE STOPS CALLING.
As you begin to ask him what happened he stops you. He says the dreaded ‘I need space’.”
“You cringe at these words. This is the very reason you begin to think why your heart was in that steel enclosure… because one day it always turns into this day.
Tears finally come and they make you feel a little better, but the pain is piercing through your soul. Eventually you know you will try again, and eventually you know you will find the keys to your heart, but also in the back of your mind your think … it will happen again.” (Source)
I wish Serena’s post was a blog and since it is not I hope she has read the blogs that covered it. Instead of getting a ton of posts about how ugly or manly she was, most people empathized with her situation. We have all been there. I know when my heart has been broken it has been most comforting to speak to people who have gone through it and made it to the other side just fine.
In my old age I have learned love is worth the risk. No need to shield your heart. You’ll get hurt sometime, but it’s not the end of the world no matter how much it feels that way at the time.
Wow. So hard. I’ve totally been there. And I respect her honesty and vulenrability. I like that she is real and touchable. I have one hope for her…that she not only loves again but decides to think positively and not doom the relationship before it begins by saying…”I already know it’s gonna end.” I’m not saying that if she thinks better she will NEVER be dissapointed but one thing i know from life lessons is that if you don’t fully believe and have hope (in love, business or anything really) then your worst fears do come true if you allow them to remain inside of you. We all have fear and that’s normal but constantly we must battle them. I am still learning these things myself.
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OK, FIRST OF ALL, WHY DO PEOPLE POST THINGS LIKE THIS FOR EVERYONE TO SEE. I DONT THINK ITS A GOOD LOOK FOR PEOPLE (CELEBRITY OR NOT) TO POUR THEMSELVES TO THE WORLD. YOUR FEELING ARE INTIMATE AND SHOULD BE FOR YOU TO DEAL WITH. PLUS, WHO THE F**K CARES?!?!
Dang, people can say all day long that they relate to her situation blah blah blah, but this is really weird. It’s like she’s trying to make whoever it is feel sorry for her and call her. It’s one last final act of desperation. Leaves me to think it’s no wonder whoever it was left her a**. She must be hella clingy. I mean if she posted this on her own persona website she had to have know it would go public immediately. It’s like she’s trying to send dude a message and the only way she had to do it was through the media. As if it wasn’t already bad enough that she looks like a man, now this. WOW!
maybe because she IS “normal folk”…..she just got money.
Reading her blog made me think of my own past heartbreaks. Alot of times when we are hurt to that extent we close-up and hide it from everyone. I think she should be commended for being strong enough to post something so intimate about herself for the world to see. She is a beautiful and accomplished woman. Eventually the right man will come along a realize her worth.
This is beautiful. I wish her happiness:)!!!
In life you learn, I know this sounds old fashioned but people need to take things slow, really get to know each other and not get caught up in the sexual part of the relationship. Men usually want to try other women, that’s all SPACE is, I’ve used that line myself in my lifetime. Also, when you are young your idea of relationship can be quite different when you are older, all I can say is you have to go through it to learn from it.
3kisty78 and Shhhhhh
yall cold LOL!
However, I do understand what you both mean, except for the “looking like a man”, seriously ease up on the hate. Even if she looked like a man she still has a right to feel human emotions (infact incase you didn’t know its a right that every human being has male,female, or those that have sex changes) She obviously needed to vent, keeping it to herself wasn’t enough…why do you think we all end up telling our own business to others, cause we need COMFORT. This is her therapy, so let it be.
I don’t get it if your suppose to be this emotional person who is scared of realtionships or commitments cause you don’t want to get hurt, then when you do get hurt you tell the world??? Well not the world but we have seen it now so to me that is personal & she should have just kept those feelings to herself I know it’s good to keep a journal about your feelings & etc. but that could be almost humiliating in a sense cause whoever the dude is may think this is a ploy to try to get him back or her just wanting attention!!! Girlfriend better move on I know it hurts but she has too much going for herself to be locked up in a room somewhere crying all day!! I know it’s easier said than done but she will be ok!!!
I truely feel bad for her.I believe it is crazy when people tend to attack the way a person looks. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think she is human period.And just because someone has money does not make them banned from feeling the same pain everyday people go thru. Look at Hallie she has her issues when it comes to dealing with men. And she’s what some people find BEAUTIFUL. Everyone at one point in time vents and look at myspace men and women use there accounts to start the healing process after hurtfull breakup. I’ve been thru the same thing and it hurts. The firstthing u assume is there is something wrong with me. So to see someone attack her on her looks just sucks. I have felt she carries her self very well and has confidence as she or any woman should have. But it’s okay to cry because this to shall pass.
Heartbreak is a bitch!
She’ll be alright. This is the hardest part. Once she gets it out of her system by talking about it, she needs to do my tried and tested cure for a breakup. Get another man to replace him. Works for me.