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Wanting love isn’t for the faint of heart.

It involves sitting through moment after moment of discouraging evidence that seems to promise you love will never arrive.

There will be many mornings when you feel achingly lonely, when you deeply long to wake up, open your eyes to see your beloved laying next to you, and hear them say, “Good morning … I love you.”

There will be nights when all you want is to feel their arms around you, and their lips gently kissing your forehead so that the day can melt away.

There will be days when you wonder how you’re going to sit through another first date with someone you’re not interested in, or handle the pain of rejection when the person you fell head over heels for never calls again. 

There will be evenings when you swipe swipe swipe online and all conversations seem to be leading nowhere – when no one attractive asks you out and your inbox is filled with inappropriate innuendos, bad spelling and poor grammar.

There will be times when you wonder if you’re just meant to wind up alone, if you’re actually unloveable, or if there’s no one out there you would want to be with. 

There may even be times when you secretly wonder if life is even worth living without a relationship, and quickly talk yourself out of that dark line of thinking. (I think most of us have “gone there” at one point or another.)