{"id":273,"date":"2011-01-26T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.wordpress.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2015-08-29T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T02:08:30","slug":"i-love-me-before-i-love-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/i-love-me-before-i-love-men\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Me Before I Love Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/iloveme.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"274\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/i-love-me-before-i-love-men\/iloveme\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iloveme3.jpg?fit=570%2C277&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"570,277\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"iloveme\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iloveme3.jpg?fit=570%2C277&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-274\" title=\"iloveme\" src=\"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/iloveme.jpg?resize=570%2C277\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I love men. Oh yes I do. Call me boy crazy\u2014I\u2019m not\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/?p=309\" target=\"_blank\">a bit coquettish<\/a><\/em>\u00a0for no reason!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But before men\u00a0(I only get the butterflies for boys who dance) there\u2019s a few things I love more including\u2014but certainly not limited to Nutella, sexy little underthings, and\u00a0<em>myself<\/em>. I\u2019m well aware of how totally and completely vain it sounds, but it\u2019s true. I love myself. I love me: I love who I was, am, and becoming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>You should, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take yourself out on a dinner date. It seems daunting, and perhaps a little weird, but it\u2019s ultimately\u00a0<strong>liberating<\/strong>. Immerse yourself in new experiences. Surround yourself with different people, plant yourself in new places.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/?p=229\" target=\"_blank\">Self-indulge<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Learn to love\u00a0<em>you<\/em>\u00a0first; only then will you truly and wholly be able to love another in the\u00a0<em>right<\/em>\u00a0way.\u00a0<strong>Be selfish! We\u2019re young! <\/strong>We have the world ahead of us; there&#8217;s\u00a0so much to explore, and more than enough time to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You owe that much to yourself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. \u00a0 . \u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">x<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">{image <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>}<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love men. Oh yes I do. Call me boy crazy\u2014I\u2019m not\u00a0a bit coquettish\u00a0for no reason! But before men\u00a0(I only get the butterflies for boys who dance) there\u2019s a few things I love more including\u2014but certainly not limited to Nutella, sexy little underthings, and\u00a0myself. I\u2019m well aware of how totally and completely vain it sounds, but it\u2019s true. I love myself. I love me: I love who I was, am, and becoming. You should, too. Take yourself out on a dinner date. It seems daunting, and perhaps a little weird, but it\u2019s ultimately\u00a0liberating. Immerse yourself in new experiences. Surround yourself with different people, plant yourself in new places.\u00a0Self-indulge. Learn to love\u00a0you\u00a0first; only then will you truly and wholly be able to love another in the\u00a0right\u00a0way.\u00a0Be selfish! We\u2019re young! We have the world ahead of us; there&#8217;s\u00a0so much to explore, and more than enough time to do so. You owe that much to yourself. . \u00a0 . \u00a0 . x {image via}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[698,503,710,582],"class_list":{"0":"post-273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-advice","7":"category-philosophy","8":"tag-girl-talk","9":"tag-pearls-of-wisdom","10":"tag-relationships","11":"tag-self-love","12":"entry","13":"has-post-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I Love Me Before I Love Men \u2022 A Bit Coquettish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Your mantra: I Love Me Before I Love Men (\/Women). 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