Category: Dating
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Advice for high schoolers: your relationship isn’t everything
You’ve certainly heard that high school isn’t the most important period of your life. Yet, when I was there, it felt pretty significant. Even though I had a strong relationship with my family, my friends were more important. Worse, I was obsessed with boys. I’m talking check my phone every five seconds to see who…
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No one likes to talk about the hard stuff
Long distance sucks. It sucks a whole when your support system is over 8 hours away. There’s no luxury of visiting for a weekend because weekend visits are out of driving distance, and plane tickets are too expensive. It sucks when everyone else’s boyfriends get to come visit while you sit in your room eating…
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If someone knows all the secrets about dating … let me know.
I don’t understand the male brain. The male brain doesn’t understand me. My biggest problem is I don’t understand how to control my emotions. But then again why should I have to? **Isn’t the best part of dating someone the emotional part? I…
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Slow and steady wins the race
I’m kind of chuckling to myself that I just titled a blog post about dating that way. Somehow though I keep reminding myself that, that cliche saying is the way I need to look at dating. If you don’t know already, which from this blog you can probably tell, I like to rush into relationships…
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Taylor Swift’s guide to a break-up
For about two months now I’ve been trying to write this post. I wrote, erased, wrote, erased. I couldn’t grasp any clever bones in my body. What I wanted was to put lyrics from Swift’s songs together into one prose to describe the different stages of relationships. But I just couldn’t do it. All I…
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Top 5 Worst Dates I’ve Been On
I’ve been on a handful of dates throughout my dating career. Some have been fabulous and others, not so much. It’s always weird to think back on why I allowed certain situations, but it’s always fun to see how much I’ve grown through these experiences. Dating teaches you a lot about yourself. These dates have…
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Don’t Mess With Texas
I hope that “Don’t Mess With Texas” mug still sits on his counter with spots of dried coffee cumulated at the bottom. My selfish mind hopes it haunts him when he rinses it out every morning to make his coffee. I’ve done this many times before, but it never hurts less. 600 miles away from…
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