He's Just Not THAT Into You

"Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you, he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your own very happy ending. Every movie we see, every story we're told implores us to wait for it. The third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending that we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don't, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy for now. Maybe... it's you. On your own. Picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something BETTER in the future. Maybe the happy ending is just moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this: knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment, you never gave up hope."

As lame is it really is, I read this book. 'He's Just Not That Into You.' And believe me, I was taught a lot. And this just so happens to be my favorite quote from the book because I feel like it spoke to me. I believe most things happen for a reason. Not everything, I can't say I'm convinced that's true. But most things. So when something doesn't work out, it's for a reason. I'm glad that I could finally come to that realization. That something way better will come along, someONE way better will come along. I refuse to settle for sub-par run-of -the -mill when I know I'm not that way myself. I don't know when it will come, and I don't know where. All I know is that it will.

From an "Only Girls" talk by Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley

"Liberation from.... insecurity—a partnership under the plan of God with a man you can trust, with a man you can respect, with a man you can honor, with a man you can look to, with a man you can count on, with a man you can help and assist and develop, a companion for time and all eternity, who will look to you in the light of the gospel that he loves and treasures, with respect and honor and dignity and love."