Camila Cabello Opens Up About Falling in Love with Shawn Mendes in New Instagram Post

From Seventeen

Shawn Mendes has been super real about his relationship with Camila Cabello and now it's her turn to open up about it.

The pop starlet took to Instagram to pen a special post about her relationship with Shawn and how it has affected her over time, even forcing her to face parts of herself that she never had to deal with before.

"I’ve learned a lot about love with this guy. It’s not just the happy blissful moments you see in pictures and videos- When you’re in a relationship with someone, it feels like they are this mirror reflecting yourself back to you — I constantly have to confront my fears, my anxieties, my insecurities, my patterns of thinking, my beliefs about life and about myself. It’s not as simple as it looks in pictures sometimes. sometimes, it’s messy and uncomfortable and ugly lol," she wrote. "But there’s nothing like the pull, the FORCE that is love, to be the light in the darkness — to be the gravitational pull that gives you the relentless strength to be braver, wiser, and better than you were yesterday."

She said that she plans to be more vulnerable about her relationship online to show all the different sides about it and not just the good.

"It’s so instinctive for us to love, even if our minds try to protect us from it sometimes, but our nature as humans is to love. And to be in love means to choose that person over and over again, to go through the messy stuff with. And that’s way more beautiful and raw and real than perfection," she continued. "I’m all for being vulnerable on social media because I think only the neatness and perfection of life is shown on here; and that can make us all feel extra lonely and weird! So raise your glass to the messiness and weirdness of being human and the miracle. And the easiness. And the instinct. And the relentless force that is love."

Shawn previously opened up about being scared of being his true self with Camila and fearing that she would see him as weak.

"I mean, I went through a month where I couldn't really even communicate with her because I was struggling with anxiety and I didn't want her to see me weak. And I was on the verge of ruining our relationship. And then when you come out on the other end and you're like, 'Listen, I'm struggling here, it's hard for me to even say this to you,'" he revealed on Apple Music. "And everything starts building and growing and getting stronger and the roots fortify, and you look around and you're like, 'Oh sh*t.' Bravery. That's bravery. That's strength."

Based off of what we've seen in Shawn's new film, In Wonder, they're definitely #couplegoals.

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