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Relationships
Women share the single best piece of advice they’ve ever been given about finding love
3 years ago
4 min read
Love is a messy, complex and sometimes heartbreaking business. Here, Stylist readers reveal the hard-earned advice they’ve learned along the way: the wisdom that has transformed their attitude to relationships and finding ‘the one’.
I’ve been told that when it comes to love, I have unrealistic expectations. Now, I’m not sure who to blame here – Jane Austen? Nicholas Sparks? Nora Ephron? – but growing up reading and watching stories filled with romantic proposals and passionate declarations of love has perhaps left me with a warped sense of what finding ‘the one’ actually looks like.
You know how it goes: two people meet, they fall hopelessly in love and live happily ever after. It’s fate, right? When in reality, it’s more like flying to New York for a fifth date with a guy you’ve just met online, only to find out he’s a real-life Christian Grey (true story) or hitting rock bottom after being kicked out of the flat you shared with your long-term boyfriend (also, sadly, true).
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