There have been several posts about what it’s like to date a PR babe, including some from a few of my personal favorite blogs, like PR Daily and NYC PR Girls.
We ladies of publicity are a specific breed and all share some of the same basic qualities. It takes a specific kind of person to manage agency life. It gets hectic, can be incredibly stressful and because of the nature of working in client service, can cause us to be late to dinner occasionally.
So, in reading all of these, I'm all: what would I want my future BF to know?
Slash, not just a significant other, but how could I explain these to friends so we could understand one another better?
Slash, not just a significant other, but how could I explain these to friends so we could understand one another better?
See below.
We bullet out everything.
And I mean everything. (Wait, am I doing it right now?)
Even a whimsical love note left on a pillow would look something like this:
Even a whimsical love note left on a pillow would look something like this:
Hi Babe,
Hope you have a great day! I love you for the following reasons:
- you're incredible
- we love all the same things
- I dig your bod
- especially your nose, hair, eyes, lips, arms
- oh wait, that’s like, everything
- your laugh kills me
- you're literally fantastic
I’ll circle back with you later to discuss with some further detail.
Best,
Your PR Girlfriend.
We have the most annoying optimism.
What's that? Four reporters hung up on us and three made us cry with multiple expletives? No problem! We'll send over that press release and screen shots just in case they change their mind. You never know!
Couple that with our sheer tenacity and and general go-gettedness and you have a girlfriend who rarely fails to see the silver lining.
Sometimes even I say to myself, “oh hey girl, if you look on the bright side one more time, imma shank you.”
Service is our natural love language.
We got into PR because we like doing things for and on behalf of others. We do our best to anticipate needs before they come up, and take care of them as soon as we possibly can.
That said, we are used to taking direction from others. So, tell us how to help you. And for the love of all that is good, please be explicit.
We will be your loudest cheerleader. Period.
We become devoted fans of the brands we represent and find out as much as we can about the industry in which we work in order to be effective brand managers. Samsies goes for you. We'll do our best to support you in every way we can by doing our homework on how we can help.
Since our job is to get publicity for our clients, we also may or may not take any chance we have to spread the word about how attractive/talented/thoughtful you are.
Hopefully you're up for being publicly praised.
Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be in constant communication with us.
Yes, we LOVE Gchat, but we also love you.
Give us a chance to miss you. Let us wonder how your day is going. Constant access to someone can take away that heart-pounding anticipation.
Don't worry if you don't get back to us right away. We can wait.
Truth or truth, we’re wound a little tight.
PR is a lot about constantly staying ahead of things, so we do tend to get a little over zealous when it comes to planning. Being ahead of the curve is something we live and breathe, so cut us a liiiitttllleee slack if we're already talking about next Christmas before we deck the halls this year.
We do our best to lock it down.
There are plenty of other need to knows about dating a PR girl (don't be surprised if our alarm goes off and we roll over to check our Google Alerts, you'll get used to it) but those are biggies, I'd say.
To note, some of these could just be a function of me and my personality. I mean, there's a reason we pick the careers we do. It's likely I would be this way even if I wasn't a media maven, but working in PR helps me exist in my natural habitat.
Until next time.
Until next time.
xoxo
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