How To NOT Be Like Arie From The Bachelor
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How To NOT Be Like Arie From The Bachelor

If you can't decide, don't do anything.

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How To NOT Be Like Arie From The Bachelor
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I recently wrote about Bekah on Arie’s season of The Bachelor. She teaches viewers an important lesson on love. She taught viewers the importance of finding someone to compliment not complete them, which is an important lesson. For those of you who hate The Bachelor franchise, I totally understand. It’s the end of seasons like Arie’s that make me realize how flawed the franchise is.

Arie proposed to Becca and dumped Lauren. They were happy and in love. If you don’t already know, after the proposal takes place they send the couples to have weekends together twice a month in secret because otherwise the ending will be spoiled.

Becca thought she was going to spend time with her loving, handsome fiancé. When he arrived, he broke her heart and told her he made a mistake in choosing her.

In the real world, dumping your fiancé is still painful, but dumping your fiancé for the other girl is even more painful. What makes this episode take a knife to the viewer's heart is that the break up was aired.

Viewers felt for Becca and hated Arie for his indecisiveness. I agree with this sentiment, but I think there is a bigger lesson.

If you can’t make a decision don’t do anything, especially if other’s hearts are involved.

My mom would say this to me as a kid and even to this day, I think about it. I think it is a lesson we all need to relearn and one that Arie should have heard from the beginning.

Breaking up with your girlfriend has a way lighter weight than breaking up with the person you will soon vow to spend the rest of your life with.

If you're in the middle of spring fever and can’t make a decision of staying with someone or breaking up with them, take some time to think it through. I understand that our time crunch isn’t Arie’s, but you don’t have to feel pressured to make a choice.

Our hearts are precious and so are others. If you can’t make that choice and feel confident about it, then don’t do it.

Lead with your heart, but also understand the logical side of your brain. You have to trust your gut feeling about someone or something.

This can go for school or even jobs. When picking a college we are told to look logically, but also see if we feel it. When looking for a job we are told the same, look at the money and see if you like the people.

Arie shouldn’t have proposed and he should have went with his heart despite the logic.

Lead with your heart, but don’t forget to check yourself every now and then, especially if others are involved.

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