Say no to “scraping the bottom of the barrel”

Jenna Martin
6 min readSep 5, 2022
Photo by Faith Giant: https://www.pexels.com/photo/letter-tiles-on-white-surface-10826233/

I think I’m still recovering from my date with Jake. And it’s not that I had grandiose expectations or even unrealistic ones. It’s more that he lied about what he called his “lifestyle” and in the end, about what he’s truly capable of emotionally.

So, after connecting with Jake and chatting through text for a week, it felt like I was walking into a date with a man who wanted a life…

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Jenna Martin

Resilience coach. Mindfulness teacher. Dedicated to helping little and big humans thrive through adversity. Author of Milo & The Wisdom of the Sea.