Ladies, if you could give any type of advice to us younger gals ( Archived) (60)

What would it be? Life lessions and such. I love talkin, and this is alot of fun!

Never lose site of who you are. Do not change for any man, you will only make yourself miserable and destroy the relationship in the process.

Learn to love yourself. Women struggle with self-acceptance for many years, feeling insecure about our bodies, our faces, our hair, our everything. Come to terms with your beauty AND with your flaws, whatever they may be. Accept no less than you deserve...in your friendships, in your lovers, in your life. Being free to say "this is not acceptable and I don't have to tolerate it" is amazingly liberating. Don't spend countless hours wishing for perfection or fretting over things that, in the great scheme of life, mean nothing. I know women who chip their nail polish and they fret over it and fret over it until they can get back to the manicurist! Things like this just aren't worth such attention in our lives. Laugh every day, even if you have to find something to bring it out of you.
Embrace nature, find pleasure in simple things, and love as honestly and as completely as you are capable of loving.

That's a start, anyway!

Keep duck tape on hand!

Take the time to get to know you every so often. We change as life goes on...our needs, our desires, our goals. Keep in touch with who you are along the way. And love who you are at all times along the way.

Be honest with yourself and everyone else. Love honestly and openly. Never allow yourself to shut others out, or put a wall up between you and the world. Love and life are risky, but without taking those risks of being hurt, one really isn't living full out.

Keep your life in balance, and always take some time for you. It's easy to forget to do that if you're married with children and a job...but do something for just you at least a couple of times a week, preferably once a day if you can...whether it's taking 5 minutes for a quiet cup of tea or coffee before everyone else gets up, or going for a walk every afternoon, or taking an hour before bed to read a good book.

Sorry to butt in here...but this is not gender specific advice so far. Good stuff for everyone to consider.

Exactly! Every one needs duck tape.

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