50 Guys Get Real About The Relationship Mistakes They Repeatedly Catch Girls Making

By Thought Catalog Updated January 12, 2024

25. Telling their partners they are okay with something when they aren’t.

I personally take things at face value. I say what I mean and I don’t read between the lines very well. So when a simple ‘yes’ to ‘can I go out with my friends tonight?’ turns into a 3 hour argument the day after, that’s a problem. I see this with almost every relationship I know, first and second hand.

26. Women who think they’ve hit the jackpot by stealing some other girl’s man. If he’ll cheat with you, he’ll cheat on you. It’s just a matter of time.

Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino

Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.