you are #1

After a friend’s relationship with her long-term boyfriend ended, she saw him out at a bar just a mere two nights later spending his entire night dancing with a beautiful girl. She called me from the bar and said to me with muffled tears that I could hear even through the long-distance phone connection, “I need to find me someone beautiful.” I said to her, “You already are beautiful…find yourself! Then you can find a beautiful, good man.”

I know it sounds cheesy, but sometimes being single isn’t as awful and lonely as we fear it to be at the end of a long-term relationship. Sometimes it’s the time in your life where you learn the most about yourself and what you’re capable of. Don’t get me wrong, it’s totally reasonable to feel like you just got the shit kicked out of you. But the hope is that sooner rather than later you regain your strength and go back to being the amazing woman that you always were. Being single gives you time to work on the relationship you have with yourself – and that’s so important because no matter who comes and goes in your life, that’s the one constant. You have to wake up and go to sleep and everything in between everyyy dayyy with yourself, so make sure that’s a relationship you’re satisfied with.

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