We, as humans, CRAVE love and being accepted by others. We fall in love, and sometimes it hurts. Our love is not and will not always be returned.

In Moulin Rouge, a character says "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." You will know when you are in love. You'll feel it in your bones, in your stomach, in your heart. It will be one of the most peaceful yet exciting feelings you've ever felt before. You'll be so happy that you could soar, and you'll be so scared that you feel like a deer in the headlights. But being loved in return? That's the hard part. That's the part that you have to watch out for. It's easy to mistake the desire to be loved with actually being loved. I call this "Toxic Love."

Toxic love will eat away at you. You want to be loved so badly that you accept being in a toxic situation, just because you're getting the attention you desire. The boy that treats you okay when you're alone, but in front of his friends he doesn't act like he loves you doesn't like you. The boy who tells you he's "Just not ready for a relationship" to your face, but tells your mutual friends "there has not, is not, and will never be" something between the two of you doesn't like you. Please, for your own sake, open your eyes. You deserve more than that!

You deserve someone who listens to you, who wants to know your favorite shade of your favorite color. You deserve someone who will dance with you to no music and who will sing to the top of their lungs with you in the car. You deserve someone who wants nothing more than to make you happy! Maybe he's that guy you've been pushing away because you were too into the jerk who wasted your time. Maybe he's the guy who told you about his "fourth grade crush" on you even though he's like 22. There are so many guys who want to treat you as a priority, so don't allow someone to treat you as an option.