The boy who told you he'd text you when he was leaving that morning but never did? He sucks. The girl that told you she loved you but then dumped you to get back together with her ex? Yes, she sucks. But after all is said and done, not everyone sucks. We all eventually get…
It’s almost inevitable that once in your life you are going to get your heart broken. It’s not just going to be like that time one high school someone didn’t like you back or that other time in college where you gave someone your number and he didn’t text you. It’s going to be real. …
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On a recent blog post called Choosing Love, Candid Compositions mentioned how important it is to know each other's love languages and I completely agree. I started looking into love languages in the past couple years and kind of assumed that mine was receiving gifts. But I decided to do some official digging and take…
Dating is hard. In our culture, we mate for life. We find a person as soon as we can to marry and have children with and grow old with. We have marriage benefits, we have joint bank accounts, and we share lives. That’s a very serious thing so the process to get there is very…
Life is hard and relationships are an aspect of life - so they aren't always easy either. My boyfriend and I are celebrating 4 years together and if there's one thing I learned, it's that nothing is a constant. I wrote about how our 3rd year together had the theme of sticking together. I don't…
Continue reading ➞ What I’ve Learned After 4 Years Of Being In A Relationship
With more things opening up, August had a lot of fun plans! Here's some photos from our month:
It's not uncommon to come across cheating in college. Everyone knows the drama: he's been cheating on her for years. She knows but ignores it. They both cheat on each other and never confront it. It only strengthens the stereotype of the hookup culture and makes everyone questions how relationships work in college. When you're…
I don't like my exes, not a single one of them. My relationships/spurts of dating/long-time hook ups ended poorly often. I might've not liked them even before we broke up. Sometimes I stopped liking them during the break up process. Other times, we were friendly for a while, but I ultimately stopped liking them. Mostly…
Meet cute: a scene in film, television, etc. in which a future romantic couple meets for the first time in a way that is considered adorable, entertaining, or amusing. Because I base so many of my falling-in-love fantasies off of love novels and star crossed movies, I've always pictured my moment with "the one" as a…
In middle school, having a boyfriend was the only thing that was important. You're in your awkward phase and just need someone to tell you you're pretty. You're still forming friendships and you need someone who is a constant. Your favorite emo songs sing about heartbreak and falling in love and you want to be…
