When You’re The One More Invested In The Relationship

When you are the one more invested, you listen closely for a ticking clock. You feel expiration date slapped across your forehead.
When you are the one more invested, you listen closely for a ticking clock. You feel expiration date slapped across your forehead.
You worked really hard to shed that Freshman 15, and now your perception of food has kind of changed. But you still like to eat pizza…like a lot of pizza.
If you’re not up to asking yourself “What if..?” for the rest of your life, then go on and do me a favor. Give it a chance and take the risk.
Your first love is nowhere and everywhere all at once. And you are living on and well inside their realm as well.
I found myself reflecting on how hard it is just to sit and do nothing. And I mean actually nothing. Not dozing, not reading, not meditating, not listening to music, not going for a drive – actually nothing. Just sitting, alone with our thoughts and feelings.
Her snide comment that day had not been the apex of her cruelty. The most cruel? Years ago when I told her I was finally pregnant with a long awaited 3rd child and she put her head in her hands and sighed, “Oh no. . . .” Or a few weeks later, when I miscarried that child and she said nothing.
You get stuck in between this weird place of wanting to talk to them, but also wanting to run away and hide under a blanket forever.
The person who knows nothing about your disease but thinks that they know how to cure you.
If you’re tired of collecting frequent flyer miles to the purgatory between stay and go, you’re in luck. Read on for four non-negotiables that are often overlooked, but that I’ve learned to hold on tightly to.
I’m not the girl you can protect from herself, because I’m not fragile enough to break at every step. I’m hardened, and I have battle scars that possibly mirror yours.
When I was 16, I was diagnosed with clinical depression. After the diagnosis, my uncle slapped me on the back and said, “Welcome to the family kid,” while my family all compared drugs around the kitchen table.
First time I went to my Mothership Whole Foods after releasing the article was super weird…all the employees had read the article! They were all smirking and giving me funny looks. The security guard stood next to me at the…