This Is How You Make Your Life Your Own

Do not wear your body like an apology. Wear it proudly. Be in awe of your form for what it is, for where it gets you, for what it allows you to feel and do.
Do not wear your body like an apology. Wear it proudly. Be in awe of your form for what it is, for where it gets you, for what it allows you to feel and do.
She wants you to say that you love her, at weird, random moments when no one would expect it.
Sometimes, the courageous thing to do is “walk away” or “let it go.” But sometimes that is nothing more than cowardice.
A lot of toxicity is accidental. A lot of it is innocent. A lot of it is approached with genuinely positive intentions.
“I’d rather have a blowhard like Trump than a religious nutter like Carson or Cruz.”
When my sister announced her pregnancy, my mother was disgusted and my father was horrified. After the pregnancy was announced, I would sit in my bedroom for hours and hear the whispers on the other side of my bedroom door, wondering if Autumn could hear it, too.
“It’s not a lie! I couldn’t leave Jingles outside!” My daughter’s wide brown eyes are filling with tears now. Great, meltdown mode. “He was tapping and he was cold and he said he’d give me a present and now he’s GONE!”
I know I have and it seems that this type of behavior is considered the new romance of our generation. I mean, how could you not have butterflies in your stomach when the guy you’ve been talking to follows his good morning text with an inquiry to see your boobs?
The moment when you first become comfortable in silence together. When you no longer feel pressured to have a conversation, because you’re so happy and relaxed around one another that you don’t always feel the need to be talking.
Just reading up until this point makes you want to click off and completely disregard it altogether.
Smart women are intimidating, and whether by virtue of feeling threatened or unworthy, people have a lot of strong feelings about them – good and uh, not so good.
You approach issues with “here’s how we got into this, and here’s how I’d like us to get out.”