As Valentine’s Day approaches, people will plan dates with their special someone and reflect on their love lives. During this season of celebrating love, the Reflector staff has you covered with words of wisdom about the dating world. Read to learn our staff’s best pieces of advice.

Lucy Hallmark Anderson 

Find a friend. Trick him into falling in love with you. Say yes when he asks you to marry him.

Maddie Hall

Learn everything you can about each other, and I mean everything! What is their favorite flavor of jam? What dinosaur do they identify most with? You should go ask. Not only is it fun, but it also brings you so much closer!

Anne Louise Phillips 

Go to a football game and find the other person who does not know what is going on. 

Rowan Feasel

Choose someone who sacrifices himself on the altar of dignity and remembers quotes from “10 Things I Hate About You” just because it is your favorite chick flick. Not really. But choose someone who cares enough to watch your movies and read your books and buy your favorite ice cream. Then do the same for him. 

Zoe Arnold 

Talk to people. It does not have to be much; even just a little comment on the class you’re in or a compliment can be enough to form a connection. Those little connections can often form some great relationships, romantic or otherwise!

Noah McCord

Be true to you and do not change who you are. The right person will love you for you. You rock!

Also, date me. I am single.

Elena Harman

Find the balance between going on dates and just enjoying one another’s company. Sometimes it is nice to just sit in the same room and do separate things. But at the same time, do not get so comfortable that you forget to spend intentional time with one another.

Willow Stewart 

Find someone who loves the way you do, even if it is “weird” or unorthodox. Just because it is not what your family expects does not mean it is not what will bring you the most joy.

Kensi Brandenburg

Be understanding and patient! Since the relationship involves two people, always consider what your significant other needs and stay selfless. Be thankful for what your significant other does for you and learn what you can do for them so that you can be there for each other.

Erin Erter 

Make sure your partner is your best friend. Also, tattoos, a septum ring, gauges, glasses and dark hair are all green flags.

Kate Myers 

Break up with your long-distance, high-school boyfriend.

Miah Hall

I am not the best love-advice giver, but I will give it a shot. Find a girl like me. I love hard, disappear abruptly and come in multiple emotional editions: sweet, obsessed or completely unavailable. Experiences may vary. Enter at your own risk.

Ivy Rose Ball

You are not running out of time. Be patient and trust that one day you’ll meet someone who loves you exactly as you are, and you’ll love them right back. Until then, all the love you have to give still has a home with the friends and family who cherish you now.