As I get older, I'm starting to dislike the term "boyfriend" more and more. Especially when I'm referring to my boyfriend in a professional setting, it just sounds so juvenile to me. Because in reality, my boyfriend is much more and much different than a boyfriend you'd have as a teenager. We live together, we…
Every other week someone I know is getting engaged, buying a house, or getting married. When you're in your twenties, there are three kinds of people in your friend group. The single ones, the ones who met their significant other in high school or college, and the ones who met their significant other after college…
Continue reading ➞ The Pressure Of Being In A Relationship In Your 20’s
My first serious relationship was 4 years long and when I say serious, I took it very seriously. I pictured marriage and kids. Planned where we'd live, where I'd go to college, and how our lives would be. At that point in my life, I would frequently say "why bother being in a relationship with…
I can say all these things because I'm a social media geek. I use it personally, I use it as a hobby, and I use it professionally. Social media sucks and tricks you into wanting things you don't actually want. I'm really not talking about the unrealistic body standards set by insta models or even…
Continue reading ➞ How Social Media Tricks You Into Wanting Things You Don’t Actually Want
I'm at that point in my life where everyone I know is either engaged or talking about getting engaged. People say "oh you're just at that age!" But it's actually the furthest thing from what I want right now. And I don't think my age has anything to do with why I should be getting…
I’ve always felt held back by the people I’ve dated in the past. I think a lot of my relationships ended abruptly, they left me without closure. Because sometimes I ended things fast because I wasn’t ready for anything serious. And sometimes I was strung along without any explanation at all and then left for…
Our two year anniversary of dating is next week! For a reflection of what I learned after one year, click here. I learned a lot about myself when I was single, I've never been one to jump from serious relationship to serious relationship. I think self exploration can be done in a relationship, it's just…
Continue reading ➞ What I’ve Learned After 2 Years Of Being In A Relationship
If you were to ask me 5 years ago, when I was 18 years old, where I thought I'd be when I was 23 - I would have a whole plan to reiterate to you. I wanted to be engaged the months following my college graduation, proposed to by the age of 22. I wanted…
Disclaimer: I'm the annoying single friend. Not all single people are annoying. But there comes a time in our singleness where it becomes more of an affliction than just the status of our love life. It literally becomes ailing for us to see other couples making out and we spend our nights swiping through Tinder…
