“Put your focus on liking yourself and believing the types of guys you like will like you back.”Tagged: Dating, Guys, Relationships
“There will always be someone with a better body (especially those fitness bloggers!), a nicer home, a bigger wardrobe, shinier hair, smoother skin, perfect makeup techniques, and some girl on a perfectly sanded beach somewhere gorgeous and exotic with a piña colada perched between her thigh gap.”Tagged: Relationships, Self Worth
“Jealousy is an impulse, an emotion that sometimes leads to action. If it doesn’t, then it just festers within us and causes misery. You never feel at ease; you can never fully appreciate what you have; there is always that sense of lacking, a void that demands to be filled.”Tagged: Relationships, Jealous, Self Worth
“We don’t have access to their real lives; instead, we have access to the idealized, filtered, highlight reel of their lives. And even though we know that what we see on social media isn’t ‘real,’ it can really have a strong, often negative, effect on us.”Tagged: Jealous, Happiness, Relationships
“A key ingredient to genuine happiness is gratitude—being happy with what you have. A key ingredient to being miserable is coveting what someone else has, and thinking you aren’t enough.”Tagged: Jealous, Happiness, Relationships
“It’s a look reserved only for you. It’s not only the way he looks at you; it’s the frequency. He can’t stop looking at you; whether you’re together or across the room from each other, his gaze will always be oriented toward you.”Tagged: Love, Does He Love Me, Relationship, I Love You
“After this relationship ended, I truly learned the value of loving myself, and I found that with my newfound confidence, I was a much happier person out of the relationship than I had ever been when I was in it.”Tagged: accept me, Self-Love, Acceptance, Love
“He’s trustworthy. You feel safe being open and honest with him and are not afraid of him violating that trust or using anything against you. You trust that he won’t leave you unexpectedly, that he is genuine, that he does mean what he says. You don’t feel an underlying sense of suspicion, like he…”Tagged: Boyfriend Material, Trustworthy, comfortable
“He is there for you when you need him, even if it’s inconvenient for him.”Tagged: Boyfriend Material, Reliable, Trustworthy
“A lot of women make the mistake of thinking that meeting a guy’s friends is a big deal. Maybe some guys view this as a big deal, but most don’t. Maybe he just wants to show you off because you’re hot, or maybe he just doesn’t think much of introducing girls to his friends. I have plenty of friends…”Tagged: Almost Relationship, Friends, Family, Introductions
“He doesn’t take you on real dates. If your dates consist of you going over to his place and watching a movie or you cooking for him, then he isn’t taking you or the relationship very seriously.”Tagged: Almost Relationship, dates, Relationship, Movies, Dinner
“He disappears for days or weeks at a time, then acts like it was no big deal.”Tagged: Almost Relationship, Disappears, MIA
“Thinking all men are evil is poisonous and can block you from ever having the love you want.”Tagged: Dating, Relationships, Guys
“Infatuation causes you to fall in love with an image rather than an actual person. It causes you to put someone on a pedestal and overlook his flaws. Since he’s so ‘perfect,’ you become afraid to be yourself— I mean, how could your true self ever compete with perfection?”Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating
“Instead of thinking of the worst case scenario—that you’ll die alone in a house full of cats—just calmly remind yourself that he just wasn’t the right guy for you and that’s fine. The right guy for you is a guy who wants to be with you. He’s a guy who shows you, clearly and obviously, that he likes…”Tagged: Worst Case Scenario, Breakups, H4D-45