Lessons Carrie Bradshaw Can Teach All Women

As a Sex and the City fanatic, I have seen just about every episode of the show that has ever aired. After living vicariously through Carrie’s life for many a season, I have come to realize that there are a few things that Carrie, through her show, has been able to teach all of us girls out there.

  1. Women Always (But Shouldn’t) Go for the Emotionally Unavailable Man
No matter what we do, we, women, always seem to fall for the same man. (The emotionally unavailable type). This isn't a one-time thing, but rather an embarrassing and overwhelming pattern amongst our gender. While we invest so much time and energy into these men, the truth is, the male-type we so often hopelessly fall for are those who aren’t even capable of having a real relationship at all. While many women feel that they could, in fact, be the one to change these men, it does not usually work in such a manner. We, women, must wake up. We need to realize that we deserve better. We deserve someone who is going to go above and beyond. Not just someone who will devote as much time and energy on us as we would to them, but someone who will do even more.


  1. The Mistakes We Make Lead To Our Fate

In Sex and the City, Carrie wonders time and again if making a mistake could allow a person to miss their "fate". Perhaps, however, she is actually forcing us to reflect on our own mistakes only to see that maybe the mistakes we make actually help lead us to our fate. Everything happens for a reason in this world. If we didn’t make the mistakes we made in our lives, then we might have never fallen in love, we may have never gotten to know the people we consider our best friends, and we wouldn’t be who we are today. All of the challenges we face and all of the experiences we have, in the end, teach us a lesson and help to shape us.

  1. “Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed.  Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.”

While many people may think that women just sit around waiting for the right man to come along, this is just not the case.  Women are busy people, too.  We have our own lives and have so much to think about and do during the day.  All women want to find love, but trying to find love doesn’t mean that we have to put our lives on hold in order for us to find it.  When the right person comes along, we’ll know, and if it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be.


  1. “They say nothing lasts forever, dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.”

While the women on Sex and the City go through so much throughout the series, they show that you can’t get through anything without the love and support of your best friends.  We all need a group of gals who will be there for us in our darkest times, who will lend an ear and a shoulder to cry on when we have no one else we can turn to.

     
  1. “Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.”

These are some of the wisest words Carrie Bradshaw shares on Sex and the City.  Carrie knows that we are all going to date many different kinds of people in our lifetime. The most important thing to keep in mind, however, is that we will never truly be happy in a relationship unless we are happy with ourselves.  As the saying goes, you have to love yourself before you can love anyone else.  If the person you’re into doesn’t love every single crazy, weird, and amazing thing about you, they’re not even worth your time.

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