{"id":4037,"date":"2021-12-27T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2021-12-26T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T17:38:57","slug":"love-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/love-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This blog post is sponsored by Divine Desserts Publishing, LLC. If you like movies such as Love Hard, then you MUST READ The Bakery Romance Series by Cecelia Dowdy. The Bakery Romance Series is an Amazon bestselling series. Visit ceceliadowdy.com\/books<\/a>. The link is at the end of this blog post.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever participated in online dating? If so, what happened? Did any of your dates turn into a long-term relationship?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw this movie on Netflix and LOVED it! Natalie has had a lot of disastrous dates. She talks about these awful dates on her dating column. She meets Josh on a dating app. Natalie and Josh bond via long phone conversations. The story takes an interesting turn when she decides to surprise Josh by making the long-distance trip to visit him for Christmas. When she arrives at his home, she realizes that people don\u2019t always portray themselves in a truthful manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I most loved about this movie is that it shows how Josh needed to boost his self-confidence. He is working at a job that he hates just so that he can please his dad. Josh also lives in the shadow of his favored older brother. Josh knows what he\u2019d like to do for a living \u2013 but he just needs to find the courage to pursue his dreams. He shows Natalie his true self \u2013 what I mean is Josh shows Natalie aspects of himself that he\u2019s not had the courage to share with his own family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This movie really resonated with me because I dated online decades ago. I recall speaking to one man who said that he no longer participated in online dating. He said that women were not truthful in their ads and he was wasting his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I met one of the men from the dating app in person for the first time \u2013 he stated that he was surprised. He said that I was the first person who truthfully portrayed how I looked. He claimed that although the ads had photos, the pics only displayed the person\u2019s face. He said that women would lie about their weight \u2013 as well as other aspects about themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love Hard makes the point that looks aren\u2019t everything. Just because a man is good-looking, doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that he\u2019s actually a good<\/strong> man. Josh proved his kindness. He was nice to Natalie and helped her out. It takes Natalie awhile warm up to Josh. She returns Josh\u2019s kindness as both of them learn their lesson about love, romance and relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, have you ever participated in online dating? If so, what happened? Did any of your dates turn into a long-term relationship?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog post is sponsored by Divine Desserts Publishing, LLC. If you like movies such as Love Hard, then you MUST READ The Bakery Romance Series by Cecelia Dowdy<\/a>. The Bakery Romance Series is an Amazon bestselling series. Visit ceceliadowdy.com\/books<\/a>. The link is at the end of this blog post.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This blog post is sponsored by Divine Desserts Publishing, LLC. If you like movies such as Love Hard, then you MUST READ The Bakery Romance Series by Cecelia Dowdy. The Bakery Romance Series is an Amazon bestselling series. Visit ceceliadowdy.com\/books. The link is at the end of this blog post. Have you ever participated in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-review","category-saturday-matinee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-137","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}