A Must Read!

I finally finished a book! Better Single Than Sorry: A No-Regrets Guild to Loving Yourself and Never Settling. Ok, so it might sound cheesy but honestly one of the best books I have ever stumbled across. I was in Barnes & Noble back sometime in early 2007 and this book had just come out. At the time I was in a very “weird”, on and off relationship, but something drove me to buy it. I brought it home, read through the first couple chapters, (maybe going over the words more then I was taking in the information), put a bookmark in it and set it on top of my night stand. From the top shelf of my night stand it slowly made its way to the floor and under my bed. (Must have just grown legs and walked away J) The book made two other house moves with me in the time being and ended up once again on the bottom shelf of my nightstand at Eastover. As I was doing some cleaning several weeks ago, it caught my attention. That night I snuggled down in my bed, pulled out the old bookmark and started the book all over from the beginning. I couldn’t put it down. EVERYTHING made perfect sense. It was like I was sitting there talking to my smartest best friend and she was telling me exactly what I needed to hear. “She’s so right,” I kept saying to myself. “That’s so true.” “Why didn’t I see it?” These phrases were coming up over and over again within me.

The information I was reading wasn’t some new found discovery that Jenn found cave searching in the desert. Honestly, it was all very basic but it just takes reading it over and over again for the concepts to sink in. These concepts that were being stated through this book were things that women in every stage of life need to have repeated to themselves daily.

Let's be honest. No woman really wants to be alone for the rest of her life. But does being alone mean you're doomed to be miserable forever? Definitely not! And does being single have to equal lonely? No way! You can have the best time of your life when you're single, but you wouldn't know that from our relationship obsessed society, where celebrity magazines devote the majority of their content to who's dating whom and the wedding industry is a $100-billion business. Yet more than a third of marriages end in divorce, and countless other couples languish in unions that shouldn't have happened in the first place.

Don't become a statistic—love yourself and never settle!

Jen Schefft knows that better than almost anyone. In 2003, she got engaged in front of millions of people on television's The Bachelor, only to see it end nine months later when the relationship just wasn't right anymore. A year later, she turned down an engagement on The Bachelorette, and the backlash was relentless. She was labeled a "spinster" by a celebrity magazine, and a noted national talk-show host remarked that she would be "a bachelorette for the rest of her life."

This is a terrible message to send to the millions of sensational single women out there, and in Better Single Than Sorry Schefft makes it her mission to let women know that it's better to be single than to be in a relationship that doesn't make you happy. With testimonials from women of all ages—single, married, in committed relationships, with children (even single moms) and without—this book tells you how to let go of your fear of being alone and how to love yourself and never settle for a relationship that is anything less than you deserve. (You will find one you deserve!)

Written in a conversational style, as if talking with your best friend, Schefft helps you navigate the pressures of a culture that places an unhealthy importance on being in a relationship and shows you how to find happiness in work, home, and the simple pleasures of everyday life. Above all, she shows you how it's far, far better to be single than sorry. Being single is a time to have fun, learn new things, grow, and blossom—not a time to feel desperate or depressed, so cherish it!

This book isn’t here to tell you that you should be single forever – It just gives you some insight on what to focus on when choosing your relationships and how to make the right choices!

Suggestion: READ THE BOOK NO MATTER IF YOU ARE SINGLE, MARRIED, DIVORCED…! And read it at least once every couple of months to make sure you still know what you want!