"My mother said it best. She said I wasn’t emotionally mature or stable enough to be in a relationship. Again, I should have listened to my mother and worked on myself before considering a serious face-to-face or long-distance relationship."

Your mother is the significant other in your life such that her words are established authority over your life.

There are so many things about you that are not discussed here.
Even the best psychologist will struggle to proffer solutions here.

As you said, it is time to pick up yourself, love yourself, and be kind and compassionate enough to yourself. Say kind words to yourself.

That you are alive today means that the world is incomplete without you. You are a divinely calibrated and customized product of the Almighty God and you are a work in progress in the hands of God.

You are created special, peculiar, and unique for God's glory.

Your tomorrow must be better, greater, and higher than today.
Start now to work on yourself.
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