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The Gift of a Broken Heart

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A beautiful gift signifying the gift of a broken heart.
About all that heartbreak. It’s a gift. Really.

I was telling a friend about this blog today, and explaining why I’m so passionate about wanting to help spare my single girlfriends out there from so much of the heartbreak I went through, when I realized something.  About all that heartbreak.

It’s a gift.

Any time we experience a broken heart over someone who didn’t turn out to love us the way we loved them; any time we’re forced to face the reality of unrequited love; any time we’re left watching someone walk away from us, realizing we’re on our own again.  It’s a gift to be grateful for.

Really.Continue Reading

Shallow

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For me, it was all about the kind of car he drove.
For me, it was all about the kind of car he drove.

Cars.

El Caminos.  Corvettes. You name it.

I have a confession to make. I was really really shallow when it came to what kind of car a guy drove.

Like it was a deal breaker.

Crazy, I know, but it was. For some reason, it just really mattered. Like the guy who drove the El Camino.

You know, that half-car, half-pickup truck contraption that must have been popular at one time or another.

Well, it wasn’t in the nineties when I went on a date with a guy who drove one of those, and while he was attractive and charming and had a number of other great qualities, he, well, he had that car.Continue Reading

Why We Choose Who We Do

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A beautiful woman stands, looking downward, in front of a red brick wall.
We have so much worth, we just don't realize it.

Have you ever noticed that you attract and are attracted to the level of your own self-esteem?

Like if you’re feeling great about yourself, full of confidence that you really are all that, you’re going to find yourself attracted to that guy in front of you at the grocery checkout line.

But if you’re feeling down, feeling like you’re not all that, maybe you had a less than glowing job review, or you’re put on a few extra pounds that you’re not happy about, then the opposite holds true as well.

And you won’t even see the guy in front of you let alone think about starting up a conversation with him.Continue Reading

Believe

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Loving couple sitting and hugging in the park. View from behind.
What would your life be like if you truly believed everything was going to work out perfectly?

I know what you’re thinking: It sounds like a cliché. 

Just believe! It’ll happen. Just believe it and it’ll come true.

And while there are a lot of people out there who claim the power of believing in something, that it really works, I’m going to go a step further here and talk about the power of believing that I’m referring to.

The kind for us not so sure types that get so hung up on how to do it right that we end up not getting the point of it.

It’s not just the cliché you’ve heard so many times before. It’s the real thing.Continue Reading

The Things We Do For Love

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A woman skiing out of control down a steep slope.
This is how I wound up on a roof...

Why we do them, no one knows. But if we think it’s love, we’ll try it.

Because they’re into skiing and we want to do things with them and we just know it’ll be easy to pick it up.

No, no, no! Do not do this.

I learned this one the hard way. And ended up on the roof. Of a shed. On the slopes.

It was supposed to be skiing on the trails, and not scary. But, in my enthusiasm for my new beau, I neglected to mention that I had never skied before, and in fact, found the whole thing a little scary.

But I, the ever idealistic pleaser, was sure it would work itself out.

Right.

So there we were. Of course I looked the part in my expensive sexy snow bunny suit, so I figured that would make it all work out. I’d look so good it wouldn’t matter that I didn’t really ski (at least not well).Continue Reading

Letting Go

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A woman is standing near a railing looking over the water, thinking about letting go of her relationship.
It's never easy...

It’s hard to let go of a dream.

Even harder to let go when we still believe the dream might still come true. Someday.

So we hang on.

A little longer. Or maybe a lot longer.

Because it was everything in the beginning. It seemed like the beginning of that perfect relationship.

The real thing. He seemed like everything we were looking for. He seemed to be in it as much as we were. But then everything changed. And he’s not in it like he used to be. And we are.

So here we are.

Still hoping. Still hanging on. To that dream.Continue Reading

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