

Something is NOT better than nothing
(The pic above was posted in late March. This post was originally written on April 1st, more content was added since that date.) For the first time in a while, I'm truly alone. No husband. No boyfriend. No special friend. No boo thang. No nothing. It's an exhilarating and depressing feeling all in one. Exhilarating because there's a lingering thought that if the man of my dreams comes at this moment, I am truly unattached. He could come right in, rescue me, and we go off into

I want to be loved by someone who believes I am enough
I'm becoming more jaded about dating, and I realize maybe that's where I should've started….but I’ve accepted that I care entirely too damn much to have started there. A major side effect to being a hopeful romantic. At times, I wish I could embody the carefree attitude I see people display. I wish I could be better, stronger. Like, how do you take it when someone you are willing to drop the other options for, isn’t willing to do the same for you? In a situation like that, I