Category Archives: Love & Relationships

I think I am a holder-on. I blame it on being the eternal optimistic and always seeing the good and the potential in people. I strongly believe in people and know they are amazing in their own way. Sometimes, people hurt me or wrong me. Because of always wanting to see the best in people…

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I find that some of my hardest and happiest times are unequivocally linked with a song. I mean, every time I hear Macy Grey’s “I Try” I am immediately transported back to seventh grade when I wore brightly striped knee socks and thought it made me the coolest kid in school. Fall Out Boy’s “Suga,…

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All the fairy tales tell you love conquers all. That if you find that person and fall deeply, madly in love you will be happy for the rest of your life. Yes, yes, we know that fairy tales are aptly named because they are these illusions high in the clouds that aren’t real life. We…

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Thank you. I mean it. Thank you for breaking my heart. I’m not going to say it was fun or by any means easy. But it was necessary. Without you breaking my heart, I would not be where I am. I would not be the strong, independent woman that I am now. Did you know…

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I proclaim this here and now: I do not want to fall in love until I don’t feel like I need it. If I desperately feel a deep need to be loved, I don’t think it is the right kind of love. If I feel the NEED for love, what am I really looking for?…

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