Ya know how they say you have three different loves in your life? Well, I think it’s true. My first love was my sophomore year of high school. It was fresh and new and what I was feeling was nothing I had ever felt before. For the first time in my life, I had someone that really liked me and wanted to be with me. This feeling makes you feel so good and so wanted. For a high school girl, this feeling is everything. But, when you’re in high school and you get your heart broken for the first time, it hurts. And it hurts terribly. You think you’ll never recover. You spend countless hours crying to anyone who will listen. But, eventually, you move on. You start to feel better and you know that they were not the one for you. I can’t tell you when it gets easier, because I don’t know. One day you just wake up and it’s not so scary anymore. Just remember, the first cut is the deepest.

Now… my second love. I really thought he was the one for me. I thought he treated me so well. I thought I would never be treated as well as he treated me again and I genuinely never thought I would feel so strongly for someone else. When I lost him, that was my biggest fear. This relationship ended because of bad timing and knowing that it wasn’t right. However, this wasn’t easy to accept. This heartbreak was easier than the first because I knew what to expect. It still hurt, though. I spent so much time thinking that we were wrong and that we’d end up finding our way back. So much time crying in my best friend’s lap because he had a new girlfriend. So much time allowing him to give me false hope. One day, I just decided to be stronger. I just stopped missing him. And I’m so glad that I did.

My third love. I am telling you this is my most important love. This is the wonderful man that I am currently in love with. He is everything that I have ever wanted. He is God-fearing and sweet and honest and loyal. He loves me fiercely and he takes care of me. He makes sure that I am okay and makes me laugh. He would never hurt me and he challenges me to be a better person. One of the best things about him is that he truly is my best friend. He has proved himself to be someone I can trust with my life. He loves my family and has allowed me to be a part of his. We laugh and smile and love. One of the main reasons that I know he is the one for me is we have never once lost the magic. We still flirt and love on each other all the time. Lots of relationships lose this magic. I fall more in love with him every single day.