Grace Msalame has opened up about finding love again a new man who made her feel heard, seen, and safe in him.
In a tell-all interview on Engage Talk on August 2, Msalame says finding love again was not easy. In a video titled, In the thick of things, the media personality gets candid.
"Any man who is hard working and passionate and creative naturally won my heart, and as I grew of course, all of us, us women the picture perfect family, the knight in shining armour, the beautiful wedding, and the children that follow through as I grew I discovered it's not black and white, not that easy," she told the audience at KNT.
She revealed little-known details about her dating life.
"Broke a few hearts or my heart got broken a few times, but I learnt, and I guess I just realized that I just didn't know any better.
She battled with many things about love.
"Something I discovered and it's probably through knowledge and therapy it's for the longest time, I thought I had to be a certain way to be loved, be perfect or if I'm not this person will leave. Funny enough I got that from my father. I felt I had to be a certain way to see me, to notice me, and I carried that into my relationships."
I felt if I wasn't perfect, they would leave. And of course, you don't carry that with you into your relationships so they were doomed to fail from the get-go."
In all this, her faith has been steadfast.
"So I tried and even later on, I became a mother but they did find the love of my life, I held onto that hope even with the trials and some publicly unfortunately, and because of the years of just not knowing any better I was jaded and damaged so I hardly saw him as that at first.
So I still held back. I didn't give of myself but slowly he won his way into my heart, and it melted, you know that feeling ladies. Yeah, for the first time in my life I felt safe, I felt seen and I felt heard. For me, that's very important to exist in that environment."
Grace has a luxury watch line, that is adored by enthusiasts. She lost her sources of income at some point, but later her watch business came up.
She also spoke about how her finances were severely affected. She worried about providing for her children. Grace has three children.
"Have you ever been in that place where it's too much? When they say it rains, it pours? Like you just can't catch a break."
She withdrew from friends and public life, feeling like her world was falling apart.
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