{"id":390,"date":"2023-05-02T20:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T00:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/?p=390"},"modified":"2023-05-15T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T01:33:20","slug":"finding-new-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/finding-new-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding NEW Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0 In today\u2019s post I wanted to talk about <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cFinding New Love\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meaning figuring out what you want and going for it.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"391\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/finding-new-love\/img_0227\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0227-jpeg.webp?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"276,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0227\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0227-jpeg.webp?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-391 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_0227-jpeg.webp?resize=276%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even if that means leaving that one person or thing behind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finding new love is more about being open to change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Especially drastic ones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t tell you how many times I have been hit with full life circles and moments where it\u2019s \u201cwhat goes around comes around\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was never prepared for it, but also I never learned from my mistakes on top of my previous failures within my friendships and relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I feel as though I needed to be complacent and stagnant with the way I went about things, such as handling my emotions outwardly, or dealing with my people in the exact same way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although I may have not been injurious to all from what I account.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is worse when an individual wants to be spoken to differently or maybe even want to do different things, besides always going out to eat or going bowling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, those things would get tiring.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, I also felt like how I wanted to be loved needed to be stagnant as well because I feared being labeled as a hypocrite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were moments where I felt like I wanted one thing out of a friendship\/ relationship but months later that would change\u2026I thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I\u2019m constantly wanting something different then it must\u2019ve not been really serious or something what I actually wanted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wanting something different in terms of how to be loved, heck even what you want to eat is important.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Never sell yourself short when it comes to love or yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You are always constantly growing, constantly learning things about yourself and adopting other things\u2026it\u2019s life! It\u2019s natural\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, knowing and realizing that I had a platform to grow from things that no longer seemed like me anymore or served me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It let go a lot of tension in trying to maintain something that wasn\u2019t there to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even though I still sometimes struggle with moving on from traits and wants that no longer matter to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I find it really helpful to know it doesn\u2019t matter if I change and grow from it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>XOXO,<\/p>\n<p>Sangai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel as though I needed to be complacent and stagnant with the way I went about things, such as handling my emotions outwardly, or dealing with my people in the exact same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,21,9,8,81,76,80],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-view-story","tag-change","tag-college","tag-college-relationship","tag-love","tag-new-love","tag-relationships","tag-trust","post_format-post-format-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":355,"url":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/a-description-of-me-follow-me-on-my-love-journey\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":0},"title":"A DESCRIPTION OF ME.- Follow me on my love Journey.","author":"Sangai &amp; Samuel","date":"April 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Dear readers, \u00a0 As most of you may know, this blog is about the stigmas of college love and shows different perspectives of students and young individuals' ideals of love. \u00a0 However, I want to personalize our blog a bit at this time and show you my own aspects\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Podcast&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Podcast","link":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/category\/view-story\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Swiping-on-Lolve.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":375,"url":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/being-in-the-wrong-how-to-apologize\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":1},"title":"Being in the Wrong: How to Apologize","author":"Sangai &amp; Samuel","date":"April 28, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Being in the Wrong \u00a0 Being in the wrong as you can see from the title falls into relationships. \u00a0 \u00a0 If you think about it there has been awful amounts of times you may have been wrong in a situation or argument, but couldn't realize. \u00a0 \u00a0 Why is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Podcast&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Podcast","link":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/category\/view-story\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":351,"url":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/swipingonlove\/what-is-love-ft-drunk-college-students\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":2},"title":"What is Love? 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