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#LoveLesson: How to Craft a Killer Love Letter

By Krystal Tingle on February 13, 2015 in dating tips, love stories, Rom-Com Reviews

It’s LOVE SEASON baby! And there is no day like today (cue RENT soundtrack) to say Olive Juice!! Not a modern day Shakespeare? Me neither. That’s why I took a class called “The Art of Crafting the Perfect Love Letter.”

Take these tips and craft a swoon-worthy love letter for your boo-thang tonight! (Shout out to recovering romance blogger, Carl Pierre of WeWork D.C. for these lovely tips!)

The Art of Crafting a Perfect Love Letter

1) Know the person you’re writing for. Draw on strengths, faults, passions, fears and dreams to craft a compelling note.

2) Know WHY you’re writing. What about this person makes you feel the way you do?

3) Make it DEEPLY PERSONAL. If it sounds like a hallmark card, stop and start over.

P.S. Did you miss my BreveTV interview this week?! Click here to watch it. XOXO to the brilliant ladies of BreveTV for sharing my #LoveJump with the world!!!!!

xxoo, Krystal

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Where’s The Love?

By Krystal Tingle on December 6, 2014 in dating tips, love stories, Morning Muse, travel

What ever happened to Captain?

Better yet, where’s Krystal?!

Where’s the Love?

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60 Minutes, 10 Dates, 1 Speed Dating Sketch Fest

By Krystal Tingle on May 17, 2014 in date night, dating tips, singleness

Remember the classic kids game Guess Who? That’s what speed dating is like.

Staring at a dozen or so funny looking faces, awkwardly asking the same questions over and over again.

Only this time it wasn’t about what the other person was wearing.

Instead, “Where are you from?” and “What do you do?”

But the first question I asked was to myself.

“What am I doing here?”

My Miami Match: Herpes & Hotel Rooms

By Krystal Tingle on April 19, 2014 in dating tips, love stories, romance, singleness

Just when you think you’re ready for love, you’re not. That’s what I told myself after receiving another romantic musing from Chef.

Chef is the hopeless romantic I met on Match.com while in Miami on vacation a few weeks ago. We emailed, talked, texted and face timed every day since the first connection. It felt as if we hit it off from the start.

Christian? Check. Tall, dark, handsome? Check. Aspiring chef who had plans to travel the world and settle down in our mutual hometown of Miami? Check.

One night he sent me a text that made my face melt into my pillow.

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Love at First Flight

By Krystal Tingle on March 30, 2014 in date night, dating tips, love stories, romance

b’sheirt or bashert: (Yiddish: באַשערט)

a Yiddish word that means “destiny”.
It is often used in the context of one’s divinely foreordained spouse or soulmate, who is called “basherte” (female) or “basherter” (male). It can also be used to express the seeming fate or destiny of an auspicious or important event, friendship, or happening.

I almost didn’t sit in this seat.

The plane was packed so I shuffled on expecting to be smashed into a middle seat. You know, the one allllllllll the way in the back against the bathroom wall. The one where the seat doesn’t recline.

Yeah, that one.

Instead, after a last minute glance, I waved down a handsome, salt and pepper gentleman to see if the coveted window seat next to him was empty.

It was.

Is This Love?

By Krystal Tingle on March 7, 2014 in date night, dating sites and apps, dating tips, love stories, romance, singleness

I reached over at 4:45 this morning, turned my alarm off and Pandora on. My mornings are sacred to me and typically start with worship music but this morning it was Marley. Is This Love? was the first song that came on as I snuggled back into that comforting place between sleep and wake.

My eyes still closed, I smiled and pictured our first dance. This is my wedding song. For as long as I can remember I’ve said Is This Love? will be the first song I dance to with my husband. Not Etta. Not Luther. Just Bob.

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Black History Month: Celebrate Black Love!

By Krystal Tingle on February 13, 2014 in date night, dating sites and apps, dating tips, love stories, Morning Muse, romance, singleness

If you haven’t yet, you should check out the February 2014 issue of Ebony Magazine. It’s the Celebrate Black Love! issue and the covers feature Nick & Mariah, Melo & LaLa and David & Tamela. It’s always inspiring to see celebrity couples in love instead of the usual break-up stories. In honor of Black History Month, here are a few fun, vintage black love pics.
Enjoy!

Can I Get a Witness?

By Krystal Tingle on February 13, 2014 in date night, dating tips, romance

I plan to share inspiring quotes and thoughts on love throughout the blog, some cheesy, some funny but all swoon-worthy. Below is one of the more romantic quotes I’ve read. It’s from the movie Shall We Dance. Last Christmas Eve, My Pastors celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary and dedicated it to one another. I just die every time I read it. I hope you love it!

We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness.

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Category: dating tips

#LoveLesson: How to Craft a Killer Love Letter

Where’s The Love?

60 Minutes, 10 Dates, 1 Speed Dating Sketch Fest

My Miami Match: Herpes & Hotel Rooms

Love at First Flight

Is This Love?

Black History Month: Celebrate Black Love!

Can I Get a Witness?

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