The phrase goes: forgive and forget. Stop feeling the resent you feel towards someone and put it in the back of your mind. That person's mistake that caused you anger or hurt is gone forever and you move on with your life. I've never really been one to forgive because a lot of people ask…
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Stop Hating Your Ex
Not right this second - but think about it. Hate is the easiest emotion to come across when you've been hurt. It's the only way to truly feel towards someone who just crushed everything you believed in for so long. When someone initially cheats on you, breaks up with you, or wrongs you in a…
Why Being Alone is the Most Important Thing I Learned in College
If you're one of those people that hates ordering in restaurants, calling people on the phone, or going anywhere new by yourself - then you and I have a lot in common. Actually, you and I have a lot in common with most people in our generation. I used to think of myself as a…
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The One Who Makes You Backslide
There are plenty of fish in the sea, but chances are you are already on someone's hook. We all have that one person who lives deep in the cracks of our pushed-away memories. It's the person that hurt us badly, but we still love. It's the person who will always cause us to backslide. This…
The Hate That Can Come From Love
Love can change us. Young love shapes us, quick love pleases us, the love that's here to stay grounds us. But I don't think anything changes you more than the hate that can come from love when everything goes wrong. I have loved people in situations that didn't end poorly. We lost touch and I…
Not Everyone Sucks
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…
Falling In Love With Everyone and Everything
Republished from 4/5/15 Everywhere we turn, there are interesting people. Walk into class, stumble into the bar, open up twitter, and scroll through Instagram. You can find someone you have something in common with in every nook of your life. So how do you choose and how do you settle? I don't think our generation…
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The Dreaded Serial Dater
Republished from 2/22/15 I could go on and on about how much I can’t stand serial daters. According to Urban Dictionary, a serial dater is “someone who doesn't know what they want in a relationship. They keep dating all kinds of people from different backgrounds trying to land the person they think they can fit…
Commitment Issues
Reposted from March 3, 2015 Getting into a relationship should be considered a big deal. Some people see it as just another boyfriend or girlfriend, some people see it as their whole life changing. If you date someone for a while and see a future for yourselves, then getting into a relationship is the right…
I’m Glad It Didn’t Work Out Part 5
Bear with me here, there's only one part left after this one. A series of apologies and relationships that just didn’t work out, click here for part 1, click here for part 2, click here for part 3, click here for part 4. We used each other as much as two people can use each other.…