She wasn’t looking to be rescued, just met. In the quiet, in the chaos, in the tender in-between.
Who She Is
Mira is a teacher, a writer, a mother, and a woman who has rebuilt herself more times than she can count.
She was divorced before thirty. It wasn’t just the end of a marriage, it was the loss of her best friend. That dual heartbreak carved something deep and shaped how she moved through love for years.
It wasn’t until the devastating end of a three-year relationship that she finally stopped trying to fix the wrong things and started learning to tend to herself.
We meet her as she begins again. Learning to trust her body’s signals. To believe her own voice. To open her heart without abandoning herself in the process.
She’s soft in places she used to armor. She’s learning how to stay when things feel good. To trust what doesn’t hurt. To believe she doesn’t have to earn her place in someone else’s life.
For years, Mira shaped herself to be digestible, pleasing, productive, never too much. But something cracked open after survival. After betrayal. After the quiet ache of almost-lives.
Now, she’s choosing differently.
Energy:
🌙 Late bloomer | ✍️ Truth teller | 🕯 Soft strength | 💫 Seeker
Her Role in the Story
Mira is the heart of this story.
The narrative unfolds through her becoming, through her grief and grace, her honesty, her capacity to feel what others bury. Her growth is the thread that ties everything together.
She is a mirror for those around her: reflecting back their tenderness, their discomfort, their ability to be more. Her presence invites vulnerability. Her words disarm. Her growth isn’t linear, but it’s hers.
Where She’s Been
There were men before.
Ones who wanted her silence, not her voice.
Ones who mistook her softness for submission.
Ones who came close but never stayed.
After her divorce, Halley once told her, “Go have fun. You’ve only ever been in long-term relationships. Explore who you are without it having to mean anything.” So she did.
One short-lived fling. One out-of-character choice.
And from that moment came Pepper.
Mira never planned to parent alone. But from the moment she discovered her pregnancy she knew that Pepper was meant to be hers. A soul contract. A turning point. A truth she never questioned.
She didn’t do it alone.
Her parents were present. Steady. Sometimes imperfect, sometimes overinvolved, but there. Her mother helped with pickups, her father stocked her freezer when she was drowning in papers and bills. And in a twist of fate Mira never expected, it was Pepper’s paternal grandmother who showed up in small but consistent ways. It wasn’t the family Mira imagined, but it was family.
She’s always been surrounded by love.
Just not always the kind that stayed overnight.
Mira was also a twin, fraternal. Growing up beside someone with the same birthday but a different personality taught her early how to measure herself. There were years when it felt like she was always just a step behind. Less certain. Less sparkly. More sensitive.
That quiet comparison seeped into everything; friendships, relationships, the way she learned to take up space (or not). It taught her to overachieve. To overgive. To question if being herself was ever quite enough.
Since then, there have been almost-loves and almost-lives.
Good intentions that fell short.
Relationships where she forgot to ask herself what she needed—too busy trying to be what someone else wanted.
But each one brought her closer to this version of herself.
There were friendships that broke.
A body she warred with.
A daughter she loves with every part of herself.
There were seasons of shrinking.
Of surviving.
Of continuing.
Of showing up anyway.
And still, she writes.
She laughs.
She hopes.
Because even in the absence of lasting romantic love, Mira has built something true:
A daughter who knows she’s safe.
Friends who feel like soulmates.
A family that never let her fall completely.
And a self she’s finally learning to trust.
What She’s Learning
- That peace isn’t something to earn.
- That love can feel safe and still be thrilling.
- That she is not a burden for needing gentleness.
- That desire and devotion don’t have to come with chaos.
Favorite Line from Her Story
They never stayed. Because when you abandon yourself to be chosen, what’s left for them to actually love? Now I know better. Now I know to show up as I am, and pay attention to who leans in, and who pulls away.
Want to read Mira’s journey?
Start with Chapter Zero: The Kind of Wrong that Almost Worked
Or explore her reflections through The Clever Confidante’s Blog
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