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The Love Series: Volume 3 by @authorfionad is LIVE!!  Only 99¢ and available in Kindle Unlimited! Includes 3 brand-new epilogues! Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3NkPzmF Amazon Global: mybook.to/LoveSeries3 3 billionaire romances. 3 brand-new epilogues. Lots of babies. All the love. In Love: Rhett’s reaction to Charlotte convinced the real estate mogul that love at first sight was real. One Love: Grace has always been, and will always be, Hudson’s one love. First Love: Tucker never expected to fall for his best friend’s sister. #newrelease #boxset #fionadavenport #theloveseries #billionaireromance #ckprpromo @candikanepr https://www.instagram.com/p/CdtEAjCL8H-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[joyffree]

The Love Series: Volume 3 by @authorfionad is LIVE!! 

Only 99¢ and available in Kindle Unlimited! Includes 3 brand-new epilogues! Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3NkPzmF Amazon Global: mybook.to/LoveSeries3 3 billionaire romances. 3 brand-new epilogues. Lots of babies. All the love.

In Love: Rhett’s reaction to Charlotte convinced the real estate mogul that love at first sight was real.

One Love: Grace has always been, and will always be, Hudson’s one love.

First Love: Tucker never expected to fall for his best friend’s sister. @candikanepr

[hollysimone]

the Love series, vol. 2, chapter 9/9 Damn guys, how is it already February 14?! I’ve missed a few days of my planned love journey this year- it’s been months, if not a year+ since I’ve been this consistently active on socials (excluding Twitter lol), and 2022 has already been one of the most challenging years of my life, despite barely having started. The last official love of the day for 2022 is “self love.” Having been single (by choice) for over a year and a half now, I’m not celebrating romantic love today. Today is instead a day of appreciating myself without the added necessity of another to be happy… and by God, that isn’t easy. So many people don’t know how to love themselves without someone else added to the equation. Sometimes it’s easier to love someone else rather than love yourself- I’ve been there many times myself- but at the very end of the day YOU yourself are all you really have in life. Everything & everyone else in life is capable of being stripped away or lost in a moment’s time- while the mere thought of such is traumatizing, such is life. It is the reality of being born into this world & having to navigate it for 60+ years (if you’re lucky) without asking to be here. You are important just like all the others in your life you choose to hold dear- and that’s a fact. It’s been an especially difficult past 10 or so months dealing with relapses, romantic confusion, and financial difficulties, amongst other things, and I’m still working on loving my own self as well. Here are some of my favorite “Holly shots” of myself from the past year. This year’s Love series has been important to me- I’ve thought about love in different ways than usual & taken time to appreciate things I usually don’t. I’m lucky to be here and lucky to know you, the person reading this. Know that you matter- past all that positivity movement bullshit. You’re here and you can make a difference in the world, even if it’s in the lives of a lover or a friend or a coworker. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, after all. I’m sending love to all of you today. All the best, until the next season of love. ❤️ Xx #TheLoveSeries #SelfLove #LoveIsForTheLucky (at Sherman, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ_PkUuOe33/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hollysimone]

the Love series, vol. 2, chapter 8(?) Been MIA- again 😅 The blog went a bit haywire and it took me a bit to get it back up and running. The belated love of the day is the “love of places.” Closely associated with topophilia, which is defined as “the affective bond with one’s environment—a person’s mental, emotional, and cognitive ties to a place,” the love for the places we spend our time is a special kind of love. Today’s song of the day is one that I listened to so many times while I was in Japan. It was the perfect soundtrack to traveling across the country and taking in so many new sights. Many of my favorite places and best memories were made there, and I hope to return again someday. “Katawaredoki” by RADWIMPS. We don’t really realize the gravity of just how much we connect with and value places we visit and the spaces we spend our time in until we’ve left them or are unable to return. ❤️‍🩹 Spent a lot of time this past week appreciating the places I’ve been and wondering about the new ones I’ll visit someday. I hope you guys out are able to spend some time in a place that makes you happy this weekend. ❤️ Xx #theLoveseries #loveofplaces #LoveIsForTheLucky (at Dallas, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ5rW7eOz8o/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hollysimone]

the Love series, vol. 2, chapter 6 The newest love is coming to you late as I was catching up on Zz’s. Today’s love is “love of (inanimate) objects”. When I tried to come up with a list of “things” that I loved I immediately hit a mental roadblock- what all DID I love?! Big, more expensive things? Small, useful things? Objects I used on a daily basis or things that I appreciated seeing/interacting with/sharing? There are so many different possibilities I initially had a difficult time deciding. Discussing how much you love material items is usually frowned upon, lol, but once I decided that I didn’t want to include cliche, surface-level things like my cell phone, I started thinking about it in a different way. I asked myself, “What are a few of the things I would rush to save and take with me if I had to evacuate?” As in, THE essentials. The things in your home that you’d risk your life to save. I asked myself, “What things that I own bring me the most joy?” I walked around my house and looked around, thinking about the value that what I kept in my home added to my life. It was a great reminder that I own a lot of things, but when it comes down to it at the end of the day there are fewer non-negotiable, must-have items in our lives than we really realize. Everything in life is so fleeting and constantly changing, and there’s not anything we can do to slow down time. It’s natural to want to hold on to the things that remind us of the past and keep us grounded, despite the constant craziness of life. After much reflection, I made a few decisions. I’m a very sentimental person and I hold onto mementos from the past that most people probably wouldn’t. I also treasure my large collections of things that bring me joy, and I love to add to them whenever I can. Today’s song talks about the the weird simulation we live in, our attachment to things that make our lives easier and more difficult at the same time. It’s “simulation” by smallpools. Take a look around today at the objects you love. Hold those things close, and let them bring you that joy, if even for just a moment. You deserve it. 🤟🏼 Holly Simone ❤️ Xx #TheLoveSeries #InanimateLove #LoveIsForTheLucky (at Sherman, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZzjh3huRW9/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hollysimone]

Back again – I’m surprised that I’ve managed to post here three full days in a row, give or take a few hours. It definitely helps that I told The Internet I would- but I do feel obligated to keep my word. 🤔 We won’t talk about the fact that I forgot to officially publish yesterday‘s post until an hour ago, also. 🤪 Let’s just keep it moving into today’s love. I like to refer to this kind of love as “scary love.” Unsure love. Not quite 100% yet love, if you will. It’s “When Somebody’s Holding Me – Demo” by @jansenrhogan with @the_wldlfe, and it’s “Sleeping With You” by @seagirls. “Scary love” is the love that’s afraid to love fully. Past hurts, unanswered questions, and “what-if’s” sometimes run rampant in our lives, at times greatly and profoundly overstaying their unfortunate welcome. Today’s love is all about those questions, and that love that so desperately wants to be pure, even when doubts and hurts make that impossible. It’s truly such a difficult in-between to be in. If you’re in a place where you’re questioning what’s right for you, I hope that it only gets smoother for you from here. You deserve to be happy and you deserve a life without constantly wondering what’s right or wrong. Do you what works best for you at the end of the day- I believe in you. ❤️ May your stars be extra lucky tonight, my friends. ✨ Xx Holly Simone ❤️ #theLoveSeries #LoveIsForTheLucky #ScaryLove (at Sherman, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZi9VOrO8pe/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hollysimone]

volume 2, chapter 2 of the Love series. today’s (actually yesterday’s, but who’s really surprised?) love is “unrequited love.” a real doozy, truly 😮‍💨 i’ll just set the scene and quickly exit stage left- picture yourself seeking someone out in a crowded room every chance you get, and never once being sought after in return. the accompanying unrequited love songs for today are “Nicest Thing” by Kate Nash, and “Close To You” by Dayglow. more unrequited love thoughts on the blog. even more love incoming soon. keep living, keep loving my friends ❤️ Xx #theLoveseries #LoveIsForTheLucky #unrequitedlove (at Sherman, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZgaISBOwpz/?utm_medium=tumblr

[understandingtheenigma]

The Love Series. Part Three: Heartaches.

When we think of "heartaches", we typically think of pain, suffering, and agony. As a matter of fact, vocabulary.com describes heartaches as "Although it doesn't necessarily cause physical discomfort, heartache is an emotionally painful experience. You feel heartache when you lose a loved one, especially when the person you love dies, or when it's impossible for you to be together." I can attest to all of this being true except the first line.

Heartache. Is it actual aching. Every fiber of my body tenses up and overwhelms in my chest until it tingles and disperses across all my nerve endings. It's like... the chills but inside my chest. It's hard to verbally explain the physical feeling of my heartaches, but you get the jist... I suffer from physical and emotional discomfort of a heart ache.

I can only recall very specific moments or types of moments when I experience this feeling. For example, when I lose a loved one to death, when I hurt someone I love with my words or actions, when I am hurt by someone I love with their words or actions, and when I someone I love reassures me that I am loved. Although these are different occurrences, they all have one thing in common. LOVE. I've only experienced this type of heartache when I truly love someone. That's honestly how I've come to realize if I actually "loved" someone even in my past relationships with people. As we know, I don't tend to give out unconditional and TRUE love often. In fact, I would say I seldom give it out because I know that I can only give so much. Regardless, that's how I truly know that I love someone with every bone in my body.

It's honestly such an interesting sensation because I'm not sure if other people feel the exact feeling I am. Sometimes I've sat with myself sobbing at the the fact that I've hurt someone I love and I'll experience this physical ache in my chest because there is so much fear in my heart. There were times when I would be alone with my thoughts thinking about how much pain and hurt someone else has put me through and how I wish the pain would just go away. The pain I mention would literally be the physical heart ache. Moreover, I've experienced the loss of a loved one either metaphorically or literally and I suffer from the pain or heart ache of feeling alone. Sometimes I'm even unsure if the pain stems from pure fear or pure love... I guess in a way it stems from both simultaneously. It's confusing, painful, and frustrating feeling this kind of ache in my chest, but also comforting knowing that I'm not a robot and that I am capable to love another person with all my being.

Dear person reading this, whether you've caused this kind of pain in my chest negatively or positively, just remember that I must truly love you. There's not doubt in my mind when differentiating between you whom I love and someone who I tolerate. It's painful... because I don't want to hurt or lose you. So tell me, what do your heart aches feel like?