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

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

Thought Catalog
By Thought Catalog
Sarandy Westfall
Thought Catalog
By Thought Catalog
Sarandy Westfall

47. Not being yourself, not being open, not being a friend first. I dated a number of women who hid stuff until we slept together and then dumped it on me. That was a drag and it seems really manipulative to me.

48. A lot of them don’t really bother complimenting their guy and it sucks ass.

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

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.