💔 Sometimes the hardest relationships to leave are the ones you once prayed for.

In this episode of The Life Stories Podcast, Tori steps in as guest host 🎙️ and sits down with David’s younger sister, Alyssa, for an honest conversation about love, relationships, faith, and what happens when you slowly begin to lose yourself trying to hold on to someone else.

Alyssa shares her story of a relationship that was supposed to lead to forever 💍 — but instead became filled with control, isolation, manipulation, and constantly moving goalposts.

She opens up about the pressure to change who she was, the ways Scripture and the idea of “submission” were used within the relationship, and the incredibly difficult decision to call off her engagement and walk away from the future she thought she was going to have. 💔➡️❤️‍🩹

Tori and Alyssa also get REAL about faith and relationships. 🙏

Everyone talks about wanting a Proverbs 31 woman… 👀

🔥 But what about becoming a Proverbs 1–30 man?

What does a healthy, God-centered relationship actually look like? What happens when Scripture is used to control instead of love? And how do you recognize when you’ve lost pieces of yourself trying to become who someone else wants you to be?

This conversation is about so much more than one relationship.

✨ It’s about finding yourself again.
❤️‍🩹 It’s about healing.
🙏 It’s about faith.
💪 It’s about having the courage to walk away.
🌱 And it’s about realizing that the end of the future you planned can become the beginning of something new.

You are NOT stuck. ❤️

There is hope on the other side.
There is healing.
There is restoration. 🙌

🎙️ The Life Stories Podcast
❤️ Everyone Has A Story.

This is Alyssa’s.