I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself—An Unfiltered Relationship Manual with Candid Insights, Embrace the Chaos of Modern Dating

by Eli Rallo

Simple: lie. Make up fun personas in the bar when you talk to strangers.

and there are people out there who will get to know you one day, and call their mom and say, “she’s just incredible.”

Goals

So now we celebrate Christmas, and I grapple, daily, with whether or not to believe in God.

Related too much to this one lmfao it’s the Catholic guilt !!

What a burden it is to hate the color of your own eyes because someone once told you it hurt to see them.

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No one ever says you have to love yourself before you can have friends. So why do we hold ourselves to a different standard when we’re looking for a romantic partner?

THIS. SO MUCH. Stop telling your single friends to love themselves first it’s annoying and untrue. She even mentions later that true constant self love is impossible, but that we can try every day for self acceptance and I couldn’t agree more.