Hailey Riely's Blog

Heartbreak is horrible. It seems like a wasteland or a bottom of a well with no ladder. We’ve all been there at some point in time, and as writer I feel like it is my duty to put into words what you yourself can’t always explain. During this awful time, you will no doubt hear advice, but you are also likely have people that make you feel silly for being so sad. Everyone experiences heartbreak differently. Personally, I didn’t feel lonely; I felt empty. I felt like I had given everything I had in

Promises are not things of substance. They are only words; glittery ideas that we cling too when things look bleak. As a writer, I am constantly dissecting my every thought and spewing words; but that’s all they are-words. I’m sick and tired of people making promises they can’t keep; because sometimes it’s impossible to keep them. We make unrealistic promises because that is how we feel at the moment. I’m not talking about promises like; “I promise I won’t tell a soul you’re dirty little

Quiet. The words spoken heard, but used as a lure. My ears are growing tired, with words once admired, but actions speak louder, and I find you're a liar.

You do it so easly, set my soul on fire, and I end up playing the hand I get, run against the wind, with no expectation to win, you stir in me things that I thought were once gone, I lost what I once wanted, to become what I cannot.    

Despite the essence of love, we ignore paying attention to it in our daily lives. We don’t really appreciate the power that love has. It enriches our lives, it makes feel connected, gives action greater meaning, strengthens us in the present and makes us confident about our future. It’s so powerful that it’s said to give you a high similar to one that cocaine would give you. It gives us encouragement to better our lives. We realize the power of love when we really pay attention to how we feel

  It’s not always to easy to give up on a relationship; actually it never is. Even if you are unhappy with entire relationship, ending something isn’t good feeling. You may be confused right now; unsure if you are in the wrong relationship. You may not know where the line is for fighting for it. There are so many signs, but we can’t always see them. Sometimes we need to put ourselves outside of the relationship and pretend we are viewing it from another perspective. Sometimes you need to make a

This morning, I had a lovely conversation with a man who was convinced that he should break up with his current girlfriend. I gave him all the best advice I could give him, and just when I thought our conversation was over he said to me; “The girl before her was great, but I broke up with her. I don’t even know why I did it. She moved away afterwards and now I feel so stupid. I still think about her almost everyday.” I actually felt like I was about to cry because this happens way too often. He

Most of us are guarded when it comes to falling love. At some point, we have been let down in love. It may have even happened more than once; so our guarded stance is not something that happened over night. It was a process; one full of disappointment. It’s a wound that gets stronger every time it heals from being ripped open again. It doesn’t help that we can practically order humans like we can order a pizza. Between all of the dating sites, we feel like we have quite the dessert table spread

From Your Hopeless Romantic August 11, 2015 Hailey Riely I may be what they call a "hopeless romantic". Like most of them, I don't think that romance is hopeless. If you actually look up the definition of the word hopeless, you will find it defined in a few ways. It all basically comes down to pretty much the same thing; something providing no hope, without hope, impossible to accomplish, or not able to learn from something. Nothing about romance is hopeless. It may be hopeless with a certain

Real love is not like the movies. Despite what we think love should be, love really is only one certain way. All types of love require the same foundation. One built on communication, trust, friendship and compromise. Seems simple, right?   Wrong.   Love is a mess; but it's up to us to turn it into a beautiful clutter. What makes relationships more difficult, is the fact that people tend to look way too far ahead, and their insecurities tend to cause them to focus on what could possibly go