When Love Starts to Feel Like Silence
- Allison Guilbault

- Dec 11, 2025
- 2 min read
While it feels like two lifetimes ago, I can still remember lying in bed next to someone who was supposed to love me, who I was supposed to love back, staring at the ceiling, my body stiff with silence.
The clock ticked. My chest was tight. And all I could think was:
why does this feel so heavy?
I told myself it was normal. That love was supposed to feel like work. That the pit in my stomach was just the cost of partnership.
But here’s what I know now:
👉 Love shouldn’t feel like managing moods and tiptoeing around words.
👉 It shouldn’t feel like shrinking yourself to stay chosen.
👉 It shouldn’t feel like carrying the weight of two people on your back.
If you’re exhausted from the push-pull, the walking on eggshells, the endless negotiating with yourself about what you can tolerate: hear me when I say: it’s not supposed to be that hard.
And yet… so many of us convince ourselves it is. We call exhaustion devotion. We call half-love normal. We call “low-maintenance” a compliment, even when it’s starving us out.
That’s why I created Done Settling.
This is not another “relationship skills” course. This is two weeks of raising the bar in every area of your life: in your partnerships, in your career, in the way you decide attract abundance or make decisions from the place of deprivation and in the quiet way you talk to yourself when no one’s listening.
Two weeks where you stop apologizing for wanting more- in your bank account, business, body, bedroom and relationships.
Where you stop taking crumbs and realize that you can actually have it all, if you only remembered how to unlock the confidence, courage and conviction you once thought limitless.
No, your relationship shouldn’t be this hard.
And your life shouldn’t either.
✨ If you’re ready to live from truth instead of tolerance, this is your space. Consider this immersion my gift from me to you. Today is a perfect day to make a decision that sets the rest in motion.



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