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" If you&amp;#x27;ve been single for a while and you haven&amp;#x27;t been happy about it, maybe you should borrow Julianne Hough&amp;#x27;s theory and think of it as a goal, instead. In her new interview with Self, Julianne explained her relationship status since her last breakup with Ryan Seacrest in March of 2013, explaining that she actually set a goal for herself to stay single for a good long period of time. Here&amp;#x27;s what she said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m a relationship girl, and I feel so grateful for the ones I&amp;#x27;ve been in. They&amp;#x27;ve been excellent&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;#x27;ve been hurt but never angry&amp;amp;#8212;and they&amp;#x27;ve helped me grow to be who I am today. But my goal has been to be single for an entire year. There have been moments when I&amp;#x27;m like, &amp;#x27;This sucks!&amp;#x27; But my dad used to say to me, &amp;#x27;When you feel happy with who you are, you won&amp;#x27;t need anybody to fill a void.&amp;#x27; So for now, I&amp;#x27;m focusing on my work and my soul. I honestly don&amp;#x27;t care if I meet somebody or not. I&amp;#x27;m just loving life on my own with my own two feet on the ground. Interesting, right? A lot of people vow to focus on themselves or their work post-breakup, and it can be a good move. But most people probably don&amp;#x27;t commit to staying single for an entire year. I mean, plenty of people do, in fact, stay single for a year or many years after a relationship ends (myself included), but I don&amp;#x27;t know that we all do so on purpose. And could we, really? Julianne herself didn&amp;#x27;t quite make it to her goal, as she&amp;#x27;s now dating hockey player Brooks Laich, but she came pretty darn close! Group consensus at Team Smitten is that while most of us could see the benefit in swearing off serious relationships for a bit to explore new things, we wouldn&amp;#x27;t cut out all dating period, and we certainly wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to avoid men generally for an entire year, because we just love &amp;#x27;em. Instead of a hiatus from dating altogether, we&amp;#x27;d take a hiatus from having unnecessarily high expectations of what might come from it. Would you ever set a self-imposed dating hiatus? For how long? Do you think it&amp;#x27;s better to take time off from dating post-breakup, or jump right back in the game? Related: Do You Need to Go on a &amp;quot;Man Diet&amp;quot;? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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