Holly Riordan

She isn’t choosing to give you a second chance because she has low self-esteem, low self-worth, and low standards. She is only giving you a second chance because she has strong feelings for you.

“He was sentenced to death (along with his infant son) and boiled alive in a huge iron kettle while holding his infant son above the water, and when he couldn’t hold his son up any longer, he plunged his child under the water to kill him as quickly as possible.”

“I see this black, oozing mass creeping across the floor. It just kinda slithered across the brick, up the wall, pooled into a perfect circle in the middle of the room. Then, it stood up into this weird, elongated shadow person with spindly arms and no eyes.”

Yes, she is going to get upset when you treat her like a second choice. Yes, she is going to hold you to a certain standard. 

He will have playful conversations with you, but he’ll also have meaningful conversations with you. 

Date someone who enhances your life. Someone who makes you excited to get up in the morning, excited to come home from work, excited to go out on the weekends.

You don’t always brag about him. But that doesn’t mean you don’t love him. That doesn’t mean that you don’t appreciate him.

Self-respect means walking away from anyone who makes you feel like you aren’t good enough, like you are only a burden, like you are inherently worthless — because you know that’s not the truth.