Sophie Martin

You learn to fight clean, and to separate the things you are actually angry about versus the things you know will hurt them the most.

So often, it’s just a reflex that we don’t even realize we’re engaging in.

You are going to forgive him right away, because just hearing his voice again is the only thing you were looking for.

Don’t call that loser. Don’t pick up when he calls you. Don’t text him “thinking about you” when you’re drunk at two in the morning.

Work on being compassionate towards other women who have lived different lives than you and have made different choices.

Only judge a woman’s personal and sexual history if you hold yourself — and every other human — to those same standards, and know that they are only your own, and not objective.

How much the two of you are respectively still going out and drinking, and how much your social life looks like it did when you were in college, are going to make a big impact on your relationship.

4. When they don’t call you back, it tortures you.