Scripture: Psalm 139:14

You remember her.

The woman you were before the ring, before the vows, before the title of wife got added to everything else you carry. You remember what she liked. What she wanted. How she moved through a room like she knew exactly who she was.

And somewhere between the wedding and the Wednesday morning school run, she got quiet.

If you have been sitting with the question "why do I feel like I lost myself after getting married," you are not broken. You are not ungrateful. You are a black wife who was handed a role without being told that your identity was supposed to come with you into it.

Here is what nobody says at the bridal shower.

Marriage adds to you. It does not replace you. But when you were never taught that your identity as a black woman, as a daughter of God, as an individual with a calling and a voice, was supposed to remain intact inside the covenant, you do what most of us do. You slowly hand pieces of yourself over. To your husband. To your children. To the household. To the church. To everyone who needs something from you.

And one day you look up and there is nothing left that feels like yours.

This is one of the most common conversations happening inside the black marriage community right now. Black wives are waking up inside perfectly functioning households feeling completely hollow. Not because their husbands are monsters. Not because their marriages are disasters. But because they were never given permission to stay whole while they loved someone else.

Psalm 139:14 says you are fearfully and wonderfully made.

The woman God made you is not gone.

She is buried. Under the schedules, the appointments, the dinner plans, the ministry commitments, and the silent agreements you made to be everything to everyone.

Here is your starting point.

Write down three things that were true about you before you got married. Things you loved. Things you chased. Things that lit you up. Now ask yourself honestly. When did you last make room for any of those things?

That is not selfishness. That is inventory.

A wife who knows who she is brings something real into her marriage. A wife who has hollowed herself out for her marriage has nothing left to give from. You cannot pour from a cup you never refill.

The Uncommon Wife Community

The community for black wives that God is building right now is full of women asking this exact question. Women who love their husbands, love their children, and love God, and are finally giving themselves permission to also love the woman they were made to be.

You belong in that room.

The Uncommon Wife community was built for the black wife who is ready to find herself again without walking away from her marriage. Click here to join us in the community.

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