The healthy dating advice I wish I’d had as a young person…and still need in my 30s
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What wisdom can a youth leader give to young people wrestling with love, sex, and relationship drama? Author Lauren Windle weighs in with her top tips.
I can picture myself with my first boyfriend. He was 13 and I was 14 (absolute cougar). He came complete with dimples and a skateboard and every time I get a waft of Lynx Africa I think about him. I wasn’t in love, in fact that relationship only lasted three weeks, but for a few short days I was relieved that my search for love could finally stop. I had found the one.
Little did I know that I would find many ‘the ones’ of the years, the majority would be ‘the wrong ones’ but I threw myself into each romantic encounter with as much enthusiasm as the last.
Since Jamie-with-the-dimples, I’ve had my heart broken twice, and faced many other rejections. I’ve also done my fair share of turning people down and cutting things off. It’s the circle of life. When I survey the carnage of my early love life, I can’t help but think I could have nav...
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