Things I Wish More Guys Knew
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I don’t care what you drive, but I do care how
you drive it. (Hint: faster is not the
same as better)
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I’ll look at how you treat your mother to hope
for/fear how you’ll treat me
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We can make beautiful memories on a picnic you
spent twenty dollars on just as easily as we can on a dinner you spent one
hundred dollars on.
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Then again, treating me to an expensive dinner
now and then isn’t such a bad idea.
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I will rarely say when I’m hurting; please don’t
be content with just what I offer.
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I know I’m not the only girl in the world, and
I’m terribly aware that I’m not the most beautiful one out there. But beauty is relevant, and if I love you,
then the most important opinion out there is yours. Remind me that I’m beautiful to you.
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Girls love to be surprised. Please don’t shy away from trying something
new because it isn’t “your thing.” If
you write me a terrible poem, but you did it because you love me, I will be
thrilled.
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When I ask you about your day, I hope that
you’ll ask about mine and care about my answer.
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Just because you’ve caught me doesn’t mean that
I don’t need to be reminded that you love me and need me.
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Your touch is very powerful to me. If you don’t love me, don’t mess with me by
giving it to me. If you do love me, hold
my hand now and then.
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Your words are very powerful to me. Please don’t deny me them or abuse the power
they hold.
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Girls can hold their own doors, buy their own
dinners, and carry their own loads. This
doesn’t mean you should always let them.
Please take this in the complimentary spirit in which I offer it: this is very slick, very much the sort of professionally-rendered thing I'd expect to see in a magazine geared to young women. It has a personality peeping in and out (your personality!), but it also has hooks for any woman dating, in love, or in a relationship and, even more broadly, it has some things to say to both men and women about society and courtship.
ReplyDeleteWell thank you! It's funny how the pieces I seem to stress the least about are the ones that end up coming out the nicest.
ReplyDeleteHow's the book coming? Any progress?
I wrote a few thousand more words after our last exchange but seem to have lost interest again--I can't figure out how to end this thing....
ReplyDeleteHow about your projects? Words flowing like spring floods?
Endings are wicked hard, I'm there with you.
ReplyDeleteI've taken your advice, and I'm currently writing a YA Christian Romance. I'm taking a little break from my trilogy - I sort of burned out and became mired in my unanswered questions. I'm planning on picking it back up once I've finished this book though, I'm hoping that the little break will prove inspiring.
If you ever want a reader--
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ReplyDeleteSame to you! Maybe I could offer ideas for that ending...?
ReplyDeleteI'll have one book ready hopefully by June - I'd love your input.
Send it along when you want to--or parts of a whole if you'd prefer.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, if I'm brave enough, I'll send The Christian YA book to you as I write it. It would definitely spur me to write my best...
ReplyDeleteOh, go on! You're brave enough!
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