4/10/2023 0 Comments Faith jenkins![]() ![]() Instead of rushing to make that happen, she chose to manifest it for herself. During her 30s, living in NYC, Jenkins wasn’t concerned about marriage, but in her 40s, living in LA, as she picked up the pieces following a major breakup, she decided to figure out what she really wanted for herself at that stage of her life, and marriage was one of those things. She adds, “I wasn’t going to let anyone make me feel like because I wasn’t married by a certain age that there was something wrong with me or that I was off on some timeline of life,” she says. We can’t all be doing the same thing at the same time.” “There are almost eight billion people on this planet. “I embraced the fact that I was living my journey and no one else’s,” she says. Jenkins can relate to that pressure, including from fans who watched her on TV and used to ask her why she was single. With the latter, those inquiries can push many of us to run into the arms of the wrong guy to say that we have one. It touches on communication dos and don’ts, navigating breakups, the importance of forgiveness and among many other things, dealing with triggering questions from people around you about your relationship status - or lack thereof. In regards to the personal, the book covers the many things Jenkins knows now that she wishes she would have been aware of back when she was dating. “They come in and say, ‘I love this person but I want them to change.’ You can’t change someone who doesn’t see an issue with their actions.” That’s what I see all the time,” she says. “People who want to marry potential while dating somebody’s reality. Professionally, the biggest misstep she has seen in courtrooms is a common thread in most dysfunctional relationships. “I just became acutely aware of where so many women make mistakes when it comes to a lot of the choices that we make when we’re on this path to attracting the love that we really want.” “It started with family court in New York and then on my show Judge Faith and now on Divorce Court,” she tells ESSENCE. The inspiration for the work came from both her personal and professional experiences. ![]() It’s one of many lessons she’s learned in life about love, and it’s a message she’s sending in her first book, Sis, Don’t Settle: How to Stay Smart in Matters of the Heart, out now. “Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional,” says Judge Faith Jenkins.
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