"The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete."

Ghosting. It happens to all of us. However, we can't let it get the best of us.

There was this boy that I was talking to for a while. He was nice, he was cute, and boy was he funny. We talked every day, and he always got me to smile even on my worst days. It almost seemed like we were the same person. It all seemed like it was going so well. Unfortunately, I was mistaken. Sadly, all of this ended, rather abruptly in my opinion, and like just about anyone who catches feelings, I was upset about it. A few sobbing phone calls to my dad later, I came to a realization. This is not my fault.

The first thing we tend to do when someone decides to stop talking to us is "what did I do?" or "where did I go wrong?" Well, sweetie, it has absolutely nothing to do with you. You're probably an amazing person, and you deserve someone great. And I know, you probably thought he was great (I know I did), but he isn't. Especially if he didn't have the balls to tell you that things weren't gonna work out. THAT'S TOTALLY ON HIM.

We, as women, deserve better. We shouldn't have to worry about whether we'll get a text back or not, we shouldn't have to be afraid to get comfortable around someone, and last, WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO TAKE OUR CLOTHES OFF TO BE LIKED BY SOME STUPID BOY. Clearly, those things are not love, which is what we are all searching for. We deserve someone who is willing to put the time and the effort into getting to know us. We deserve someone who makes us feel like the queen that we all know that we are. We accept the love we think we deserve, and honestly, we deserve more.

So yes, there was a boy, but now I know that I deserve a man.