Category: Life
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An Open Letter To The Friend Who Has Been Through Too Much
To you, my friend. Dear Bestie, First off, I want to say how terribly sorry I am that you have had to endure everything that has happened to you. It breaks my heart seeing you sad and knowing that there is nothing I can do to make the hurt go away. I see the amazing […]
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Knowing When to Say Nothing
The surprising benefits of conversational turn-taking. In an anonymous letter to The Nation in 1876 commenting on the state of philosophy teaching in American colleges, William James described the study of philosophy as “the habit of always seeing an alternative, of not taking the usual for granted, of making conventionalities fluid again, of imagining foreign states of […]
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If These 5 Things Are Happening, Your Relationship’s Already Over
No one likes to admit their love is on the rocks, but here are a few signs you should consider. Breakups happen. It’s a fact baked into every relationship: all relationships come to an end until one doesn’t. Sometimes the breakup comes screaming out of the clear blue sky while other times it’s like watching an oncoming train […]
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50 Tiny Irresistible Things Men Do For Women That We Melt Over
It’s the little things that matter. I spoke to over 20 women from 10 different countries, asking them what little things men do that mean the WORLD to them. No matter which part of the world you come from, there is an unseen bond among women, and as you can see, a lot of them value the exact […]
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Even The Strongest Girls Need A Break
Even the strongest girls get tired of their responsibilities. They get tired of taking care of themselves all the time, they forget about appointments they’ve made and bills they have to pay. They get tired of the independent life they chose to live. They get tired of everyone’s expectations and the number of people counting on […]
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Someday Love Will Find You, I Promise
You’ve spent so much time with your head buried, still caught up in that last relationship, still aching over your past breakup, still missing him or her or what the two of you had. You’ve spent so many days with your soul running on empty, trying to fill yourself with anything and everything that could […]
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If He’s Not Sending Good Morning Texts, He Doesn’t Want To Date You
If he wants to date you, if he considers you his person, if he cannot wait to get to know you better, then he’s not going to wait until midnight to text you. He’s not going to need alcohol in his system to trigger thoughts of you. He’s not going to have all of his […]
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On Learning To Unlove You
I wish I could stop missing you. I wish I could stop playing through scenarios of what could have been and where it all went wrong. I wish I could just move on. I wish I could just let go of you, of us. But, in this moment, wishing for things is all there is, because reality is that […]
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I Want To Let Him Go, But My Heart Won’t Let Me
I can’t sleep because I’m less than ten miles from where he’s sleeping and it’s making me crazy. Okay, maybe it’s the coffee. Still, all I can think about as I lie here awake in the darkness of an alien bedroom is that he’s so close and yet so impossibly distant. What do I do? […]
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Don’t Forget To Thank God For The Bad Days
You ever had a bad day? You know, that one day that makes you think and say that you hate life. The one day that makes you wonder if life is even worth living. Of course you have. You’ve probably had so many that you lost count. Have you ever thanked God for those days? […]