Don't Make Your Excess Baggage Your Permanent Luggage

Don't make your excess baggage your permanent luggage.

~ Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima.

When we talk of excess baggage, we often refer to women and men with a lingering burden of unpleasant past. But women are often the most affected as they carry over their bruises from their heartbreaks like wounded wolves.  And in many cases, they prefer to deceive themselves and lying that they are fine; faking happiness and living in denial of their depression.
Living in denial can be caused by fear, foolish pride or shame of one's immaturity and insecurity.
Living in denial or resorting to rebounds will only worsen the predicament in the long run.
Saying the truth is the only solution out of depression.
Seeking consolation is not seeking salvation.
To be consoled is not to be saved.
Psychotherapy is the best remedy.

AskMen has a well detailed analysis of this emotional crisis.

Then there's the girl next door. She's all the things we want her to be — sweet, honest, pretty, wholesome, and, hidden under a shroud of good manners, dirty and sexual. The perfect woman to settle down with.
But wait a minute... she's acting strange.
You thought she was perfect, but why is she in the bedroom crying on the phone with her mother? Is that the silent treatment? Yes it is, and you don't know why.

 Your perfect girlfriend, the one you've been waiting all this time for, may be carrying around some extra emotional baggage. Here are some hints to recognizing it.

9 Signs She Has Excess Baggage