12 Relationship Tips

22 Apr 2015 Leave a comment

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I absolutely loved this post from one of my favorite bloggers. Definitely worth a read.

Snippet:  What to look for in a partner: I once interviewed a psychologist for a column, and I asked him readers’ questions about what to look for in a mate. Without fail, his answer to almost every question was “choose someone kind, choose someone kind.” It was like a broken record, and I was annoyed. But you know what? Being with somebody who is fundamentally kind — to children and waiters and dogs — means that at the end of the day, they will be kind to you.

I completely agree with this. Kindness is so SO important. If you are with someone who has a good heart, everything else can be worked out. That’s why I feel very lucky with Will. He’s respectful to everyone he encounters, he cares about the people in my life just as much as he cares about me. And he loves me so much and is always kind. It’s not always rainbows and butterflies, but at the end of the day even through the struggles we face I know I’m with a good person who loves me as much as I love him.

Happy Valetine’s Day!!

14 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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This is the first year ever I’ve got to experience Valentine’s Day with someone special. Every year this day would really get me down and depress me. Luckily I always had the love of my friends to remind me how much I am loved and this holiday is stupid and not to feel down. I’m so grateful for all my friends who helped me get thru Single Awareness Day year after year.
And now! FINALLY! I’m sharing the hallmark-made-day of love with a man I love very much.
I hope and wish the rest of my readers are surrounded by love in one way or another. Either by family, friends, significant other or even your pets haha
Love you all! xoxo

Monday Flowers <3

11 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

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Monday morning I was greeted with these beautiful flowers at the office! The nice man from our reception desk brought them to me and I can’t even tell you what a happy and exciting feeling it is to receive flowers when you least expect it!

Giddy with excitement I opened the card and the message read, “Hope you have an amazing week. I love you. – Will “

Flowers from the boyfriend just to make the Monday a little brighter and start the week off on a happy note.

11 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

Monday morning I was greeted with these beautiful flowers at the office! The nice man from our reception desk brought them to me and I can’t even tell you what a happy and exciting feeling it is to receive flowers when you least expect it! 

Giddy with excitement I opened the card and the message read, “Hope you have an amazing week. I love you. – Will ”

Flowers from the boyfriend just to make the Monday a little brighter and start the week off on a happy note. 

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Life Update

21 Oct 2014 Leave a comment

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Oh heeyyyyy everyone!!! So sorry I havent updated in forever.  I havent forgotten about this blog, so dont worry! But what does a girl who used to be single for over a decade and write about dating and hookups talk about now that she’s fallen in love?!?!

hahaha I guess I could talk about love…but I mean… that’s probably not nearly as entertaining. 

For the past 3 months my life has been all about getting used to this new job I started and giving 90% of all my attention to the new boyfriend. 🙂
Will and I are moving SO fast… I can barely keep up. But it’s all in a good way!
Him and I havent had your typical “we’re dating…taking it slow…” type of relationship. It’s literally been like “hi we met, hi be my girlfriend, hi I’m in love with you. hi here’s my family to meet, hi we both plan on marrying each other, hi this is where we want to raise our children..”

And I mean ALL of this in just a few months.
Scary! Right???
Except I’m not scared at all. 

I’m so happy. I finally feel complete. I finally feel relaxed. I’m totally at ease. The only fear I have going on in this head of mine is “It’s SO fast, will this really last a lifetime?”

And you really dont know. And no one can ever know that. So I’m really just banking on how confident I feel in this relationship and how I feel about him in this moment.

Blogging from work so I gotta be fast! Sorry if this isnt the best written blog. But promise to provide more updates on the regular! xoxo

I’m in Love!!!!

24 Sep 2014 2 Comments

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Gah! Who in a million years would have thought I’d be in love by September??? I mean… it all happened so fast but I’ve never felt more happy or more confident in a relationship in my life.

Every time he tells me he loves me… my heart skips a beat. Whether he says it in person, over the phone, or just through a text, it’s just the most amazing feeling in the world. Sometimes I just stare at the words when he writes it and I think “is this really happening to me?”

I was in Vegas last weekend visiting him and I knew I wanted to tell him that I love him. And I wanted to be the first one to say it. From day one he has always been so open with his emotions and his feelings for me and I’ve been more closed off. I’ve discovered in this new relationship that I’m not the best at putting words together to describe how I’m feeling.
I knew I was in love with him 2 weeks before I actually said it. But I wanted to wait to tell him until I could say it in person. We were lying in bed and I turned to him and said “I’m not sure if there’s a perfect time or perfect way to say this. But I wanted to tell you as soon as I saw you, that I’m in love with you. I love you.” and he kissed me and said “I love you too.”

He told me he’s loved me for awhile but was waiting to tell me until we went to Disneyland together in a few weeks, so he could say it under the fireworks.
I’m dating a romantic one, I tell ya.
But I couldnt have waited that long. I needed to tell him right away 🙂

So that’s my love story….

I’m In Love!!!!!

24 Sep 2014 Leave a comment

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Gah! Who in a million years would have thought I’d be in love by September??? I mean… it all happened so fast but I’ve never felt more happy or more confident in a relationship in my life.

Every time he tells me he loves me… my heart skips a beat. Whether he says it in person, over the phone, or just through a text, it’s just the most amazing feeling in the world. Sometimes I just stare at the words when he writes it and I think “is this really happening to me?”

I was in Vegas last weekend visiting him and I knew I wanted to tell him that I love him. And I wanted to be the first one to say it. From day one he has always been so open with his emotions and his feelings for me and I’ve been more closed off. I’ve discovered in this new relationship that I’m not the best at putting words together to describe how I’m feeling. 
I knew I was in love with him 2 weeks before I actually said it. But I wanted to wait to tell him until I could say it in person. We were lying in bed and I turned to him and said “I’m not sure if there’s a perfect time or perfect way to say this. But I wanted to tell you as soon as I saw you, that I’m in love with you. I love you.” and he kissed me and said “I love you too.”

He told me he’s loved me for awhile but was waiting to tell me until we went to Disneyland together in a few weeks, so he could say it under the fireworks.
I’m dating a romantic one, I tell ya. 
But I couldnt have waited that long. I needed to tell him right away 🙂

So that’s my love story…. 

It only takes one moment…

04 Sep 2014 Leave a comment

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Finally… I am finding the time to sit down and write down what has been going on in my life in just the last month or so.
It’s truly bizzarre how so much has changed SO quickly. And what’s even more crazy is how everything just sort of happened at once.
I’ve been blogging for about 4 years now… and I’ve written story after story of all the struggles I’ve faced trying to find my match. A person who I could click with, feel a mutual connection with and a person I could just find my special place in the world with.
And… it finally happened.

Good news, I have met and I am currently in a relationship with an amazing man!!

His name is Will… and surprising enough… I’ve known of him for years.
About 6 weeks ago I took a weekend vacation to Las Vegas with some of my closest girlfriends. The very first night we went out, one of my guy friends who I’ve known since high school heard I was in Vegas and sent me a text wanting to meet up. So he came out with his roommate, who just happened to be Will. And it’s so funny how it happened but for some reason the moment I saw Will, I was immediately drawn to him. I was giddy he was there and from that point on in the night, I just wanted to be around him.
He hung out with all of us for the rest of the night and knowing my skills, he probably had no idea I was even interested. But something lined up for us…because he ended up reaching out to me the next day and spent the rest of the weekend hanging out. By Sunday, I had realized more and more, in just that short of time, that he was an even better guy than I had guessed. Luckily, even after I had left Las Vegas he continued to text me. And we began talking all day every day for the next 2 weeks.

I took a spur of the moment trip to Vegas to see him and the weekend went perfectly and I realized “I really like this guy!” 5 weeks after we “met” and I was visiting him for the 2nd time in Vegas, he asked me to be his girlfriend. It was fast but it just felt right!

I walked around for years and YEARS never knowing if I’d ever find a partner. And though I never gave up hope, I did get very depressed about it.
And now just like THAT, I have this amazing guy in my life. He has the kindest heart, he’s funny, he’s outgoing and he likes me just for me. Which probably sounds SO cliche…but I can’t even describe to you how hard of a concept it is for me to grasp that this guy really just likes me.

He makes me happy and smile every single day, multiple times a day.
He’s flying in tomorrow evening to stay with me for 4 days. And I cannot wati!! He’s going to meet all my friends in LA and I’m just excited to spend more time with him.

I also start a new job Monday!! Which I will discuss in a different post.

11 Aug 2014 Leave a comment

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I’m talking to a new boy!!! And it’s that fun beginning stage where you’re so giddy and hopeful. 
He lives in Las Vegas…and I live in LA. I mean of COURSE. Heaven forbid I ever find a guy to date that lives in same city as me. :-/

I went to visit him this last weekend in Vegas. It was a very last minute, spontaneous trip. And as I was driving there Friday night I felt a little crazy… like omg…am I really driving by myself 4 hours right now to Las Vegas to see a boy I’ve only been talking to for like… 3 weeks?!? But then I also thought to myself… this is the kind of shit you do in your life that you look back on and never really regret. I mean dont get me wrong..it could have gone horribly wrong but luckily it didnt. I will always be able to look back and say “remember that time I took a spontaneous trip to Vegas to hang out with this boy I liked? Oh the fun single days…” haha! 

The weekend was absolutely perfect. We got along so well. He was fun and so sweet. I got to go out and party and meet some of his friends and all of them were SO nice. There were a few cute moments we shared over the weekend but my fav was when out of the blue Saturday night he just said to me “I just want you to know I like you a lot.” I dont think I’ve had a boy say those actual words to me in…years… 

It’s funny because of course as I’m enjoying my weekend with new guy, I hear from Ryan asking to hang out. I just totally ignored him this time. No reply.

But ya! I’m excited to see if this goes anywhere. I’m hopeful (I should seriously tattoo the word hopeful to my body) it will turn into something more… but if not…it’s just really nice in the moment.

One Month Later Post…

18 Jun 2014 Leave a comment

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5/19/14
 
I am 100% smitten. Today it’s been exactly 2 weeks since our first date. I can’t even believe I’m typing 2 weeks. It seriously feels like 2 months. How has it only been 2 weeks??? Good lord…
Anyway… it’s been 2 weeks since our first date and I have not felt this happy with someone in years. And this isn’t some “oh I like him because we make-out when we’re drunk on more than one occasion” bullshit. This is the real stuff. 
I’m spending Saturday afternoons laying at the pool with this guy. I’m going on Sunday hikes with this guy. I’m watching 5 hours of HBO Go with this guy…. it’s REAL. 
And though I can’t stop smiling and I’m completely smitten… I can’t help but worry just a little bit that this could all be over tomorrow. The ‘getting to know you and dating process’ can be pretty nerve wracking. Because when you know you’re fully into it, you always worry that the other person may not be. 
I was expressing my worries to my mom and she told me, “Just be yourself. If he doesnt like you for who you are… then it’s not meant to be.” And it’s SO obvious and SO true and we hear it a million times…but it’s seriously advice I need to be reminded of every day to help me feel better and not worry so much. If this guy decides he’s not into me then fine. I’ll find someone else one day who is. 

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