All the single ladies....

This blog has been on my heart for a while and with each week, the importance has become more and more prevalent.  I want to take the next few minutes to address the fairer sex in regards to dating (this is predominately focused on high school girls - but if we're honest, we Know this issue does not stop there).

Though I could theorize all day, I don't know exactly what caused this growing trend, but it is becoming an epidemic that reaches to all parts of their (your....) lives:  a complete lack of standards.

Girls dating any guy, any guy at all, when they are receiving nothing out of the relationship.
An interesting point to note is that this issue isn't just with those girls who are introverted, not involved, from bad families, those with poor (or no) father figures, or those with low self-esteem.  In fact, many of the girls that are breaking my heart in this regard have exceptionally strong, present, and loving father figures, are self confident (and rightfully so), outgoing, and are stunningly beautiful.

And yet....  these girls (you...?) are dating boys who treat them indifferently at best, and criminally at worst.  Guys who have no desire to date them, to cater to them, to even show any real semblance of interest in them at all.
"That's just who they are" -- "they don't like _____", -- "they don't want to go out places" -- "they have other things they 'need' to spend money on", -- "they are too nervous to come to my house (and my parents)"
... ok.  So what you're telling me is that they don't like you enough to change anything?  To adapt any behavior, to even spend 20 minutes doing something they don't like as well as (whatever), even though you love it?  Yet, you (the lady) are adapting, changing, chasing, and giving up everything about you, your wants, your desires, your needs, your identity, just so they don't have to give up or change Anything?

Girls, let me be painfully honest here.  If they wont (even sparingly) do what you love, or get involved with what You're doing, or show an interest in your passions, then they don't love you.  They don't even like you.  Period.  End of discussion.  No if's, and's, or but's.

You are beautiful, you are beloved, you are fearfully and wonderfully made, you are special, you are worthy - own that.
Find someone who will cherish you, respect you, love what you love, be interested in what you're interested in, and that you will be a focus of their life -
not just a convenient sideshow that sticks around and is always available on the back-burner for when they have Nothing else to do.