50 Things That Are Going To Turn Her Off, Not Make Her Sleep With You

By Thought Catalog Updated January 12, 2024

7. Bragging about how much they can drink.

8. Being ‘too cool’ to do anything. It shows you’re vulnerable and self-conscious and you don’t have an ounce of real confidence. Way more attracted to a man who isn’t afraid to laugh at himself opposed to one that is.

9. Reckless driving. every date I’ve ever been on where a guy has come to pick me up he has fucking sped waaay over the speed limit and did that douchey one arm leaning on the window the other on the wheel thing… are you trying to fucking kill me wtf.

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.