I didn't know I needed this The new rules for flirting, feeling, and finding yourself

Eli Rallo

Book - 2023

"From TikTok star Eli Rallo, an irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly honest take on modern dating and romance with tips, tricks, and survival-guide style rules. I Didn't Know I Needed This is the dose of confidence every girl needs to live their life on their own terms. Eli Rallo is a social media superstar, a Carrie Bradshaw for the TikTok age, a true romantic at heart, and the best friend every young woman wishes she had. As someone who prides herself in feeling fully and deeply, Eli is on the ride with you, kissing the frogs, sending (and deleting) the risky DMs, climbing down frat house gutters, making the friends you'll have for life, all while finding love and falling in love with yourself and learning that e...verything will be alright. In this earnest and vulnerable look at what it's really like to date as a young woman in the modern world of dating apps, rotating rosters, and social media snafus, Eli gives her rules for each stage of the game-tried and true tricks of the trade. I Didn't Know I Needed This follows the natural lifecycle of dating, starting with being single, flirting, and navigating the apps to going on dates, having sex, falling in love, and managing relationships, to finally dealing with heartbreak, finding closure, prioritizing your friends, and honoring your life. Discover the rules that have worked for her, and garnered her more than a half million TikTok followers. With touching stories of her own adventures and mishaps, Eli helps you navigate dating in a way that's frank, honest, funny, and relatable, giving the advice that you didn't even know you needed"--

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Subjects
Genres
humor
Self-help publications
Humor
Published
New York, NY : Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow [2023]
Language
English
Main Author
Eli Rallo (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780063298460
  • Preface
  • Rules for Being Single
  • Rules for Dating Apps
  • Rules for Flirting
  • Rules for Flings, Things, and No-Strings
  • Rules for a First Date
  • Rules for a Second Date
  • Rules for a Third, Fourth, and Fifth Date
  • Rules for "The Talking Stage"
  • Rules for Sex
  • Rules for a Relationship
  • Rules for Heartbreak
  • Rules for Closure and Getting Ghosted
  • Rules for Friend Love
  • Rules for Honoring Your Life
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

TikTokker Rallo debuts with a witty guide to modern dating that bills itself as less "Dear Abby" and more "like your audacious older sister sitting on your bed with a handle of tequila and a box of tissues and a bottle of lube" and dispensing candid "if you like him, just tell him" advice. Mining her own dating history, from a painful on-and-off college relationship with a man who told her, "via a Google Doc, that I was the best sex he ever had," to the "Bumble boyfriend" who "proved I could love again," Rallo breaks down each stage of dating. She recalls "get to know who I was as though I were a stranger" after moving to New York City for grad school and counsels readers to "treat yourself right first.... The rest of it will all fall into place." Elsewhere, she reviews a string of breakups and recommends spending enough time processing heartbreak and remembering "you can get to the other side, because all around the world, every single day, people do." Despite a somewhat slippery structure--numerous romantic trials bleed into one another, along with bits of motivation and the occasional dating rule ("The most attractive thing you can be is confident. GO THRIVE")--Rallo's assured voice and solid counsel carries this through. Those able to see the humor in heartache will be gratified. (Dec.)

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