It happens to the best of us, we put up a wall and we have no idea how to knock it down. Someone along the way hurt you enough or broke your heart enough for you to start building brick by brick. An indestructible shield around yourself so that no one could get through like…
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…
Continue reading ➞ Why Being Alone is the Most Important Thing I Learned in College
The 7 stages of grief are: Shock, it doesn't quite feel real that your relationship is over. Denial, we try to work things out, talk it out, do anything and change everything to get back together. Anger, we call you names. We tell you it's all your fault, you're a horrible person, you're the reason…
Continue reading ➞ Bad Mouthing Your Ex Is Hurting You, Not Him
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. …
Continue reading ➞ The First Real Guy After the Last Real Heartbreak
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…
Your first love more often than not leads to your first heartbreak. It’s a hard lesson most of us have to learn, but in the end it’s for the better. Initially, I blamed my ex. Called him every name in the book, drunk dialed too many times to count, cried like the world was ending,…
Continue reading ➞ Were You Really In Love With Your First Love?
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…
Continue reading ➞ Falling In Love With Everyone and Everything
Republished from 4/3/15 I came into college almost two years deep into a relationship that I thought was going to be the rest of my life. I came to find, as most young people do, that forever just isn’t as long as I thought it was going to be. I readjusted and came to realize…
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…
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