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Day 6: Sound off on the Quote, “Every Woman Has the Exact Love Life She Wants”

October 9, 201366 CommentsMandy Hale

Sound off on the quote: “Every woman has the exact love life she wants.”

I heard this quote in the movie The Wedding Date a few years ago and I remember it hitting me like a punch to the gut. Is it possible, that contrary to what I’ve always thought, singleness didn’t just arbitrarily HAPPEN to me? Is it possible that I chose it?

Let’s examine the evidence.

I like my life. I like my schedule. I like … » Read More

Day 2: Describe a Moment When Being Single Really Sucked

October 5, 2013103 CommentsMandy Hale

Describe a moment or a day when being single really sucked.

This is where it starts to get real, y’all! As you know, my message is all about loving and appreciating and celebrating your single life…BUT…doing it in a real, authentic, honest way. And if we’re going to keep it real with this blogging challenge, then I’ll be the first to admit that while 99% of the time, I love my single life…every once in awhile, … » Read More

The Single Woman’s 30-Day Blogging Challenge: Day 1

October 4, 2013105 CommentsMandy Hale

How do you respond to “And why are you still single?”

This is by far my least favorite question as a single woman. It seems to always be asked in an accusatory or suspicious tone, like either there’s something tragically wrong with me that has made me still single or that I should somehow be ashamed of the fact that I am, in fact, still single. I’ve never really understood the question, honestly. I mean, how … » Read More

Behind the Curtain: Daniel Goddard

September 20, 201336 CommentsMandy Hale

You know him best as the dashing Cane Ashby, one half of one of daytime television’s most beloved couples, Cane & Lily – aka “Lane.” Who hasn’t loved watching Cane and Lily’s marriage grow and evolve and be tested and challenged and still always manage to always beat the odds on The Young & the Restless? And as devoted of a husband and father as his fictional counterpart is, fans everywhere will be delighted to … » Read More

The Last Time

April 6, 20124 CommentsMandy Hale

“If I’d known it was the last timeI’d held on a little longer…Let that moment lingerAnd never let your fingersSlip away from mine.If I’d known there’d never be another dayI’d of watched you as you walked away…Kept you in my eyes til you were out of sightIf I’d known it was the last time.”~Lee Ann Womack It’s funny…because the entire time I was in NYC … » Read More

Three Days in New York: Part III

January 5, 2012CommentMandy Hale

“I am someone who is looking for love. REAL love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love. And I don’t think that love is here.” ~Sex & the City
I know how unbelievable this whole story sounds. Smalltown girl takes off for the big city to meet the mysterious man she’s loved for five years, only to be courted and romanced and pampered and ultimately taken to a closed diamond store and have dozens of sparkling engagement rings … » Read More

Three Days in New York: Part II

December 28, 2011CommentMandy Hale

“When you thought you’d be baking pie and living behind your very own white picket fence you’ll find yourself doing something so entirely different you couldn’t have even imagined it a year before. There will be moments when you’ll look around and not even recognize your own life…in a good way.” ~Kate Northrup
On a breezy September night in New York City, I found myself being pulled along excitedly by my Mr. E as he grabbed my … » Read More

Three Days in New York: Part I (Excerpt from Never Been to Vegas)

December 19, 2011CommentMandy Hale

“It’s funny the way things work out. You go in search of one thing and end up finding something else. If I didn’t know better, I’d think it was the Force at work.” ~Hans Solo
One Friday in late September 2011, my friend Whitney and I were laughing about how we wanted desperately to travel to New York the following weekend; both of us for varying reasons. She had friends who were going to be in … » Read More

The Return of Mr. E (Excerpt from Never Been to Vegas)

October 15, 20111 CommentMandy Hale

In April of 2011, I finally at long last closed the door on my long-suffering relationship with “Mr. E,” (Mystery? Get it?) my on-again, off-again love of five years…and for the first time in at least that long, I felt FREE. I felt like I had TRULY moved on. I wasn’t thinking about him anymore…I wasn’t crying over him anymore…I felt like I had finally unchained myself from him and his memory for the first, and … » Read More

Goodbye, Mr. Big (Part 2)

May 31, 20112 CommentsMandy Hale

From “Goodbye, Mr. Big (Part 1) And then something dawned on me…a thought as enlightening as though someone had turned on a bright, illuminating light in the middle of the pitch black room I had been living in for FIVE LONG YEARS. I scooped up my Blackberry and began tapping out a text. “For years I’ve been beating my head against the wall, trying … » Read More