Salsa,tums, and love...

So it's 5am and I'm awake eating a pumpkin empanada ( thanks to my good friend's mom) trying to get my sick/ hungry tummy and acid reflux to quite down...it's been a long day and after Christmas shopping and downing salsa & wheat thins for a late night snack ( very bad idea), and choking ( literally...thought I wasn't gonna make it) Tums and pepto down I am beginning to gain a bit of perspective on a very frustrating day/ past few months. The thing I'm learning in life is that situations are only as big and complicated as you allow them to be. And often times it just takes you stepping back from the issue to breathe and realize what is truth and what are the lies you are letting take ahold of your mind. I can sometimes be so quick to anger and ready to throw in the towel when I'm hurt or afraid. I don't like that about myself. I don't like saying things I know I don't mean. And I don't like walking out when life gets tough. We take so much for granted, and we are so petty and ready to lash out. And by "we" I mean me. It's crazy how we can become self fulfilling prophesies if we let our minds go free when we are confronted with an uncomfortable situation. I realized tonight how much my own crazy mind can damage myself and my relationships. I can be so one-sided and self focused, and that is not at all what I am called to be...I'm supposed to be a reflection of Jesus, the one true and pure love. Being love to someone is so much more important then I have been acting...for "the greatest of these is love" . God has richly blessed me this year... He has given me more then I could have dreamed, and yet instead of taking the time out to treat it with the upmost care, I run. I refuse to do that anymore. I won't let God's beautiful blessing become something the enemy steals away. I choose love . Lord help me always choose love. - Cecily Priscilla

To sail…

Have you ever wanted to just sail away, in the ocean so blue? When gray skies cloud your days and emotions drown you. When tired tears are all you have, and tired eyes have given out, don’t you want to just sail away? This is what I dream about...

A big boat with room only for two, a soaring sail white and torn, proudly displaying its tattered ends from many storms.

Star filled skies to let our thoughts rest upon, salty air to breathe; the ocean breeze would cool our skin, as we find the chance to begin again.

What a blessed thing to know, the sweet freedom that comes as the waves take you in tow; the freedom of the open sea, the freedom to explore what’s out of reach, the freedom and space to let love settle in its new home, the time, space and freedom, to let us all grow.

Oh, let this heart be made new, let these eyes be renewed, let these tears fall into the sea, let this worn ship carry me.

To the ends of the earth, to the bottom of the sea, let these cares fall away, let this worn ship carry me.

~Cecily Priscilla

Submit to the process

Do you ever have those moments where insanity seems to make sense? Like you actually think you may be going insane? Thinking over my life so far this year makes me think that. Not because my year has been bad, on the contrary, it has been crazy wonderful for the most part; but the sheer surprise and emotional drain it has taken makes me laugh and cry at the same time. My heart has been on emotional overdrive for months now. I’ve been just taking what comes as it comes and not really processing.

My life over the past 6 months has been pretty much a whorl wind, a really happy and new whorl wind of blessing. In that time, I finished and graduated from bible school and fell in love again. I’ve been pretty much on cloud 9 since about March.

Until now. When everything in my life seems very uncertain and directionless.

When the year started I was in my last half of bible school, learning about God and studying the Word constantly. I had my little weekly routine and I loved it. I loved getting to be taught by some inspiring and scripturally knowledgeable men and women of God. I got to be in a classroom with the sweetest, most heartwarming people, and I got used to walking in the classroom and opening up my bible and notebook ready to learn. It was a beautiful time in my life.

Around the last few months of school a certain very kind and charming man came into the picture. I started to get used to him as well. He made me smile and laugh more than I ever had.

I graduated from bible school on June 1^st and naturally went straight into spending my free time with my new boyfriend. I’ve had the blessing of spending most my summer days with this very sweet guy, being happy and creating memories. Sadly the constant spending time together has had to stop while life has taken us to long distance, 15 hours away from each other.

And now, without him and without school, I am finding it hard to figure out just where I need to be, and what I need to do. I’m in the weird between stage of what I want, what I’m ready for, and what God actually thinks I need.

It’s a very frustrating process, and being my very controlling self, I want to know how it will all work out.

I want things I’m not ready for; this is a very hard fact to accept when you want so badly to be ready for what you desire. It’s maddening. The heart tends to always be ahead of circumstance and our dreams ahead of God. The sad thing is that I know that what I need is going to take time, but what scares me more than that is that it’s going to take waiting in the dark. Waiting in the unknown. I’ve never been good with the unknown. I just wish my clock and God’s clock were in sync…with his being in agreement with mine.

But this morning, while lying on my bed thinking of my wants, needs, and can’t haves, my face toward my window where the soft, calming sun was shining through, I heard one thing speaking in my soul; submit to the process. Just submit to the process and get on living your life.

If there’s one thing God has taught me over the last year of my life, is that I need to learn to submit to Him. Submit my life, my dreams, my wants, and my will humbly to Him. I’ve been taught this lesson so many times and every time I think I get it, and then I realize I must not have, because I never follow it through long term. And while I think submitting our will to God is a battle we will all fight from time to time in our lives, it’s something I would really like to follow through longer than just a couple months. Especially because i know that when i did start submitting to God in the past, things were a lot happier, and instead of seeing black, I could see a faint rainbow in the distance.

Isaiah 55:8-9 says “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways.”

When I’m trying so hard to control my life, thinking I know exactly what I need and want, sulking over not getting it, that scripture humbles me. His thoughts and ways are not our thoughts and ways, they are higher. Who do we think we are to say what God should give us, what right to we have to grumble, when our Lord’s ways are higher than ours? We couldn’t’ possibly comprehend the picture he is trying to paint and the story he is writing with our lives.

Friends, if you are going through a time in life where everything feels uncertain and even painful, I encourage you to submit to the process of growing, learning, and listening. If it hurts, then go to God and ask why, but mostly, listen. Psalm 37:7 says to “be still in the presence of the Lord”, and tells us to “wait patiently for him to act”. So if you’re stuck waiting for life to move, then sit in the quiet with God. Let him grow you, and understand and accept that you may not be ready for what you want, even if you think you are or want to be. God knows when the right time to bring things to pass is. He does have a specific plan for each of our lives (Jer.29:11), and he is a faithful God. So take this time to grow into the person you need to be for the appointed time you need to be it. There are things to be learned and felt in every season of life, so submit to learning and feeling.

What I want in life is going to take time of waiting, working, and praying. Time of growing and falling hard, crying hard, getting back up and smiling again. It’s going to take patience. And it’s going to take submission to God’s clock.

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight” - Proverbs 3:5-6

“He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand." - Psalm 40:2

~Cecily Priscilla

Nothing sad…

 

Ha, this made me smile on a day I couldn’t find much to smile about :)

 

 

 

 

Going to have to make a Tumbler for all these Pinterest pictures so I don’t flood this blog with them, ha.

 

 

 

 

 

~C

Jumbled heart, jumbled head…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took a trip to Georgia for almost 2 weeks to visit with Chason and meet his family. Twas lovey and wonderful to spend so much time with him. But hard because of others things. Got back Thursday night. The trip cleared my head in some ways, and also gave it so many other things to figure out. I’ll post about the trip soon. But right now my head is fuzzy, and my heart is frustrated…aaaand, I could use a nap. So here are quotes that relate to how I feel.

 

On a last note, I just joined Pinterest! I adore it! If you’re on there follow me! http://pinterest.com/cecilypriscilla/

 

 

~Cecily Priscilla

Hosea 2:19-20

“I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD” – Hosea 2:19-20

That scripture spoke to me tonight. I’m sure I have read it before, but somehow tonight it’s meaning was timely. Sometimes we all need to be reminded of our Lord’s sweet love for us. We all need to be reminded of how he pursues our hearts because he longs to be with us. We are his bride. He will marry us in faithfulness and compassion…and oh, he is so faithful and compassionate.

Sometimes I don’t feel good enough. I think we all go through those moments in life. Today, I must admit, I had a hard time feeling anything but lost and empty, with nothing to offer. Less than. Like a item on the clearance rack that just doesn't live up to the rest of the beauty around it.

I don’t feel valuable on some days, days I give into the lie I must be “perfect”, I must be what everyone else wants me to be. Days like those are when I let the enemy fill my mind with his poison to throw me off track and get me to conform to what this messed up world wants me to be.

But, we were not created to be the same. We were not created to fit into the box society tries to shut us in.

We are made to be free.  We are made to be unique. We were all created with strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, quirkiness and oddities…we are all one of kind creations of a big and wonderful, creative God. We are  to be aliens; transformed by the renewing of our mind.

I don’t fit in this world, it does not understand who I was created to be. It’s people do not accept what my heart longs to do; bring Glory to the one and only God, and love him and others with my whole heart. I don’t care about status, I don’t care about position, I don’t care what looks good or sounds pleasing to the ears of the people who judge me. I don’t care if they think I’m odd. I am odd. But I am also something else, something no one can take away; I am loved, and I am a daughter of the King.

From now on, when I walk into a room, or face gossip or criticism for the millionth time, I will only let this one thing in my mind and heart; I am a daughter of the King, and my Father faithfully loves me.

I am betrothed forever in righteousness and faithfulness. Halleluiah. My Lord is so good to me. He loves me so unconditionally and so beautifully.

We are always enough in our Fathers eyes.

~Cecily Priscilla

Summer sun brings changes– Snap shots from my life as of late…

It’s officially summer again…oh how i adore summer! It makes my heart happy…and it also always seems to usher in changes. Summer never fails to give my life a curve ball, and throw my heart into a tail spin of crazy wonderful. I think God winks at me through the summer sun and warm breeze of the evenings :)  So much has changed and happened in the last few months and weeks, and I'm just barely getting into a new flow enough to blog it all out. I mean i turned 22 on May 28th, spent my special day/weekend with a guy who makes my heart smile and gained said guy officially as *my guy*, took finials and attend my last class at DBI, graduated from bible school on June 1st (a week earlier than planned originally) and was honored at the ceremony, and have been blessed to be spending the most happy weekends of my life with the best guy…yeah, I'm blessed. And I'm still catching my breathe to be honest. There are a lot of emotions after graduating that i need to write out, as well as other things…oh cats, i really do have so much to write here! So, to start it all off, i will post a small photo blog of snap shots from the past month. Cheers!

Destiny Bible Institute graduation…my first time being in a cap and gown (homeskool baby!)…i look weird.

Honey Bee graduation cake from Yummy Finds Eatery in Victoria :) This is my favorite flavor of cupcake there, and it it just as awesome in a cake version! Quite rich though, but so, so lovely!

Krystal and i being silly after graduation :)

Frozen Yogurt with Chason at Cherry Berry in Victoria :) We went to a late lunch/early dinner at Olive Garden, got full and napped in his truck until we were ready for ice cream, and then hit up Cherry Berry for some red velvet, birthday cake, triple chocolate, and strawberry frozen yogurt, with Skittles, and sprinkles in top!! Mmm, sooo pretty and yummy! I love skittles in frozen yogurt! Chason does not lol. Yay for pink and green spoons! Our favorite colors (awwws).

After math of the yogurt…mmm..twas worth every bite :)

Chason’s Mr. Yogurt face on a napkin…yeah, his hotness makes up for his oddness lol.. .Meh, who am i kidding, i luff it ;p

Oh cats, what a dorky and crappy photo of me lol, but i like the way we look together…and it kind of captures our relationship…i smile a lot when I'm with him :)

Chason’s idea…didn’t quite work, but fun try babe ;)

Fun in boyfriends T-shirt...yes, he’s made me (slightly) girly…screw  him. He’s getting me to wear less makeup and stuff in  my hair…I'm liking the more natural look :)

This weekend i am again spending time with Chason before he goes out of state to help with Creation Fest…yes, i have an awesome boyfriend who volunteers for cool stuff :) So I'm sure I'll have more photos to post soon…it is my goal to get a decent photo of us lol ;)

In this season, life is good, and i am happy.

~Cecily Priscilla

Fishies…

So tonight I find myself frustrated…I’m not even fully sure why really, but I am…I graduate in a little over a week and I guess I’m a little anxious about getting everything done in time. Graduation wasn’t supposed to be until June 8^th, but they moved it up a week to the 1^st…it just seems so fast and I feel like I’m going so slow…on top of that I just feel like I can’t find my footing…just unbalanced and thrown off. My head feels as if I have little fishies swimming around and around in there…like a merry go round that’s making me dizzy. I’m not a schedule type, but I think I need to make one for the next couple weeks; I just need a bit of organization before I go batty.

Lots of deep breaths.

Funny mix of feelings here, because in the midst of that I’m really, really happy…I mean I’m graduating bible school!! Something I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do due to some complications. So, even though I’m stressed, I want to smile…and cry happy strange tears. I’ve been crying those happy tears a lot lately, which is different, but very good.

I just want to sit by the water and take all this in…the past 8 months of my life have been the most crazy, exciting, tough, challenging, frustrating, beautiful, and wonderfully happy time of my life so far. I am so blessed. God has been so good to me.

So I’ll just breathe deep, and let it all go. I’ll lay down the anxiety and worry at my Lord’s feet and let Him carry it tonight. It’s all in His mighty hands. He’s got this all figured out, and he’s strong and able.

Let’s rock this.

“Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.” – Mathew 11:28-30

~ Cecily Priscilla

Though it tarries…

“For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. “- Habakkuk 2:3

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Let it come softly, let it come like a lighting flash, let it come in a still small voice, please let it come, let it last.

Let it come like a rain storm as I sleep, falling suddenly, lulling my eyes into an endless dream.

May it come like the ocean, its depth no one can know. May it be as peaceful as the waves, cleansing the shore as they flow.

Oh, let it be as a song, a sweeping melody. Let the tune drown out these fears, let the notes carry me.

Or maybe it will come as the spring, sunny, bright, and new. Bringing life to all dead things, and making memories new.

Let the roots dig deep, strong as on oak, as withstanding as the olive tree, never dying despite the storms and fires life throws. Let it be life giving, and fruit bearing, let its shade be a place of rest for many.

Yes Lord, send it in the burning sun, the sweet fresh air, let it remind us how to breathe, and let it renew our hearts so that we may once again believe and dream.

~Cecily Priscilla

Early birthday cows and cupcakes…:)

I was surprised today with an early birthday present of tons of cow balloons and yummy yummy cupcakes from Hey Cupcake in Austin, all thanks to a very sweet and awesome guy…I like boys who buy me cupcakes and cows :)

Birthday cow is cute!!!! I wanna hug her! Clover Clancy is her name :)

 

Pretty package of cupcakes and pink birthday hat!!! I like pink birthday hats :)

Heaven….with a smiley face!!! Red Velvet,Chocolate with special candy on top, and vanilla on vanilla :) They smelt and tasted lovely! Mmmm :)

My house full of balloons and cupcakes…happy girl :)

 

So, this guy put in so much effort and thought into this surprise for me…driving the three hours from Austin to my town to drop off the cupcakes to my town flowers shop, driving back and cutting it close to being late for a important meeting…no one has ever done something so special for me. His beyond sweet gift made me tear up a bit, but they were happy tears….I'm so blessed to know him :) His heart is so big, and God’s love just shines through him like crazy, I've never known anyone like him :) He’s super and has tons of hugs coming his way ;) Definitely a happy early birthday for this gal ;)

 

~Cecily Priscilla

Summer To Do List :)

 

Oh summertime, how I love you…you make me swoon. Summer has always been my favorite season; it just feels free and happy. God must know this about me because around this time of year he always introduces some form of random whimsy happiness…God is whimsy, did you know that? Yes, he is very whimsical and random and fun, and the summer always reminds me of that aspect of my Lord. I think I’m just falling more in love with him just typing this remembering all he is and how the sun and the crashing waves and the flowers and sounds of children laughing all reflects his beauty and love and joy…how I can’t wait to get out and see it all again. So in honor of the fact the summer is on our doorstep, I thought I’d post my summer to do list; a list of things I hope  to experience in coming sunny months. However, this list is tentative, I have a funny feeling God will change it a bit like he always does…I love that about him :)

 

~Summer To Do List ~

1. Spend a day at the beach –

I love the beach, the sound of the waves, the feel of the sand beneath your feet, getting to find pretty and interesting sea shells. I love being in the happy sunshine. I haven’t been to the beach in years, I miss it. I want to take a day this year to just relax on the sand and let the sun rays kiss my skin.

 

 

2. Buy swimsuit for said beach trip –

Oh, swimsuits…every girl’s nightmare. I seriously haven’t worn/shopped for a bathing suit since I was about 14…so sad. Every year I see those lovely tiny swim suits in the stores and breathe a sigh…and then want to murder those perfect stick girls who I see buying them. But, this year is different, I mean, still want to murder those stick girls, but I feel more confident in my own skin (on most days), and I want to go for the swimsuit dang it! I’m an almost 22 year old woman; this is my prime baby, why should I let my youthful figure go to waste by fearing the bathing suit? I will buy a swimsuit this year that makes me feel comfortable, and like the beautiful, and playful, woman I am, and I will rock it, yo! ;)

Really lovin’ this Betsey Johnson printed halter!

3. Have a pretty picnic dinner party –

Picnics are so sweet and fun! They just take you back to being a carefree kid. I’ve always wanted to do it up big with a picnic dinner party, invite all my friends, decorate the outdoor space really whimsy, throw some twinkles lights up, make awesome and yummy fresh food and fruit pies. Add some awesome folk and/or exotic music and some pretty plates and diner ware, and have everyone dress up…magic :)

 

4. Attend a summer music festival –

Ah, summertime and sweet music go hand and hand. I’ve wanted to attend a summer festival for years but haven’t got the chance yet. The music, the heat, the food, the different kinds of people…so enchanting, to get lost in a musical sea of pounding drums and blaring guitars all day long would be just heaven. My sister and I are the types that know of every Christian music festival in the U.S., and plan to one day travel to all of them. But until then my goal is to at least make it out to one this year. Maybe Rock the Desert in Odessa…maybe a different one. We’ll see :)

5. Get a tattoo –

I’ve wanted a tattoo since I was 17, but something has always stopped me in the past (mostly my dad lol), but I don’t think I can wait much longer…I mean really how long can a girl be expected wait to feel the rush of the tattoo needle on her skin? Yeah, not longer than 22 years that’s for sure! I’m planning on getting my first one after I graduate from bible school in early June. So jazzed! There are so many tattoos I want…I think I counted about 7 not counting my half sleeve of sweets, and I’m ready to get started on them baby! :)

6. Get my hips pierced –

Okay, so people think I’m crazy for wanting this, but I don’t care! I want my hips pierced! Surface piercings are so intriguing and cool, and I love the way the hip piercing looks, the way it frames the hip bone is just awesome. I’m so aching to do it!

7. Take a road trip –

What is better than being on the road with people you love? Very few things. I’m a road trip lover, there’s something about packing up and taking off early in the morning before sunrise, driving all day popping in random mix cds, and stopping at interesting places along the way, or cuddling up with a fluffy blanket and pillow in the backseat as you watch the stars and drift off to the sound of the road beneath your tires. I love to explore, and road trips are just so magical…okay, so I’m romanticizing it a bit, but they are special when you are with special people. I must take at least one road trip this summer :)

8. Have the perfect small town summer day –

Riding around town eating sno cones and listening to music, walks at the bay, movies at night…saying up to watch the sunrise…:) Reminds me of when I was growing up :)

9. Craft and sew – So my sister and I have become obsessed with the idea of crafting lately, we really want to get into making pretty things with our hands. So we made up our minds to make a list of crafts we want to complete this summer and go to it! So fun! Along with that I’m going to be getting a church member of mine to teach me to sew...oh how I want to be able to alter my old grungy band t-shirts and making them into something a cute and awesome. I have my cherished Sullivan t-shirt I want to make into a rockin’ halter, so I got some learning to do!

10. Get Henna –

I always thought it would be fun to get a henna tattoo, they look so awesome and fun, plus they're not permanent. Summer just seems like the prefect time to do it :)

 

 

Cheers friends, hope your summer is filled with fun and lots of smiles :)

 

 

~Cecily Priscilla

Purr…:)

 

 

 

 

Last week after class my doorbell rang and guess what I saw… Rhonda from the flower shop with a bright and spunky bouquet of pink Gerber daises (i love Gerber daises, they are just so happy!!), and a pretty gift bag full of…Red Bull. Oh yes, Red Bull! I really love Red Bull….purrr. It’s like heaven in a pretty blue can.

So yeah, a very sweet and kind boy who made friends with the lady at my town flower shop (I’m not even friends with the lady at my flower shop…this guy is good.) is the culprit of these happy gifts, and all these darn smiles this girl has been wearing lately...God is good :)

So yeah, this post goes out to him…thank you for making me smile lots…meow, purr  :)

 

 

 

 

~Cecily Priscilla

You were right after all...

one of the very last things you ever said to me was that there are way better guys than you out there. i think that was the only honest thing you said in that whole conversation.

Cecily’s Slightly Sarcastic Dating Rules Part. 2…oh yes baby, there’s more…

So, I while back I posted a list of some of the dating rules I go by, rules I made after experiencing some “interesting” guys. This is a continuation of that list, because once you think back on your past dealings with guys, you realize that there are so many things you want/need to look out for next time! Yeah, don’t feel bad if you find yourself there, we all do at some point. Love can suck (Sometimes). But, if you know what to look out for next time you will avoid picking that dumb indie/emo guy that ended up acting like he was 12 instead of in his twenties (yeah I said it). So here’s a continuation of my slightly sarcastic dating rules, i hope they help you see the good from the crazy! Cheers!

1. Never date a guy who wears Axe Body Spray, aka “the not yet a man” cologne. A guy who wears Axe is in that stage of life where he is finding his man identity. You can identify him by the cheap smell radiating from him and the pathetic attempt at a beard that just looks like a bear attacked his face and stapled his fur around his mouth. Boys who wear Axe are still in the frat boy state of mind and want to play the cad with all the “babes”. Boys like this will flirt with any female that breathes. Dump the child and find a real man who is serious about life and has goals.

2. Never date a guy who takes shirtless photos of himself on post’s them online. The guys who post shirtless photos of themselves online are egoistical and insecure. They also are cheesy and tacky and if you date them your friends and family will laugh at you. No real man will be so gay to post pictures of himself shirtless that taken by himself. Get a man you can respect and not laugh at behind his back.

3. Never date a guy who compares himself to biblical characters, especially Hosea. When a Christian guy compares himself to Hosea, what he is really doing is covering up for the fact that he is more like Hosea’s wife. This tells you He’s an emotional and/or physical cheater, who will never be satisfied and likes to play the martyr. Run far away fast, and find an honest (and less egotistical) man of God.

4. Never date a guy who follows both David Bazan, AND C.S. Lewis on Twitter…he is confused about his faith and is unstable. He wants to be “Mr. cool” and “Mr. philosophical Christian” at the same time. He will always have one foot in the world, and one foot walking with God.

5. If your boyfriend talks about his therapist in a buddy- buddy way more than he talks about his actual friends that way, then you should be scared and run…and change your number.

6. Always beware of a guy who requests all your family on Facebook. Now, this can be fine and very sweet if the guy wants to know your family, it means he cares and that is very awesome. HOWEVER, if you break up and your ex never deletes your family members from Facebook/Twitter, it will make things very awkward and weird. To ensure that you will not have to live your life with your ex still having some kind of connection, don’t let him friend your family on social networking sites until you are in a committed relationship. Also look out for him having all of his pasts ex’s friends and family members on Facebook…if he’s still talking to his high school girlfriend’s mom, then you should worry baby.

7. Run away from any guy who tells you what his “love language” is, especially if he says its touch. Imagine riding in a car with yo’ boy, and having him tell you “My love language is touch” *sly smile*…yeah, you’re thinking, “there’s no way in hell that you want touch to just express your “love”…you betta back those hands up baby!”. Guys who buy into the “love language” lingo are just emo boys with very loose and sneaky hands and other body parts. “Love language” is creeeeepy and icky, and hella awkward. Go for the guy that simply expresses his love genuinely, and doesn’t feel he has to specify how he shows it…aaaand who is not a total creeper. If your guy does ever tell you that his “love language” is touch, tell him yours is hitting people and if his “showing his love” gets too frisky, you will show yours by punching him in the face :D

8. Make sure your boyfriend has cut ties and/or has tied up the loose ends with his ex before you date him. Otherwise you might find yourself in the awkward position of having your ex-boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend’s Facebook friend request pending because she requested you because your boyfriend just barely cut emotional ties with her and she was trying to get to know/interfere with your relationship with him, and you had no clue what to do with her request, so you did nothing. Super weird and uncomfortable!

~Cecily Priscilla