Today’s Relationship Advice is TOXIC (Part 1)

For my next few posts, I’m going to talk about all these popular articles and videos I’ve viewed containing relationship advice which I believe is toxic.

The first thing I want to bring up, as I feel it is the most important, is the advice that is given to women about what it means when a guy doesn’t contact you for a given period of time.

There are so many articles that state that if a guy doesn’t call or text EVERY SINGLE DAY, it means he doesn’t care. He isn’t that into you. Sadly, this advice actually comes from guys! I’m not a guy, and I won’t pretend to be able to read anyone’s mind. But I will say this: Just because a guy doesn’t contact you every day, doesn’t mean he doesn’t care. A guy could go for two weeks without saying anything, and that still doesn’t mean he’s not into you. People go silent for all kinds of reasons besides lack of interest.

I recently joined a group on Facebook that was called “Relationship Advice.” You wouldn’t believe all the toxic advice I saw on there. One post that really bugged me was someone (a girl, I believe; age unknown) saying that a guy she has been dating a month hasn’t contacted her for 24 hours. She asked if she should end it and so many other people said, “It sounds like he already has.”

Come on, people! They’ve only been together for a month. And it has only been one day since he last contacted her. Give him a break! Sometimes people get busy. Sometimes people get caught up in their own issues and just don’t…