Jana Kramer Opens Up About Being Too ‘Available for the Wrong Person’: ‘I Don’t Want to Play Games’

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Trying to move on. Jana Kramer didn’t hold back about the challenges of dating — with the biggest problem coming from trying to be “unavailable” to others.“Sometimes I am so available for the wrong person, and I am almost like, ‘I am not going to pick up the phone when this person calls me.’ Because I am just too available,” Kramer, 38, explained during an episode of her “Whine Down” podcast on Sunday, July 24. “I think if I was a little less available — but then it’s a game.

I don’t want to play games.”The actress noted that dating again helped her realize what she is and isn’t looking for in a partner. “I don’t think I can ever date someone who [isn’t] successful in their own right,” she admitted. “Because I feel like I have dated other people that weren’t.

I want to care and to go but then I just get taken advantage of.”Kramer’s insight into her personal life comes after she recently reflected on the one-year anniversary of her finalizing her divorce from Mike Caussin.“What a difference a year makes.

I remember getting the inevitable call that our divorce was final and being broken … and truthfully, I stayed that way for awhile putting bandaids on my heart,” the One Tree Hill alum wrote alongside before and after Instagram photos on Saturday, July 23. “It wasn’t until I looked within and did the hard work that I started to heal.”The Lifetime star recalled the steps that she had to take to get to a better place. “I also had to own my pieces and look in the mirror for what I could do different and work on.