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When You Break Up With Someone You Love, You Aren’t Going To Stop Thinking About Them Right Away
When you break up with someone, you aren’t breaking one big habit. You are breaking a million little habits.
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I’m So Happy I Found You
When I’m with you, I can unapologetically be myself, unafraid of ultimately driving you away.
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Stay Single If You Aren’t Ready To Stay Faithful
Don’t play with her emotions. Don’t sneak behind her back. Don’t make her wonder what she did wrong, why she wasn’t enough for you. Don’t leave her with self-esteem issues,…
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What Each Zodiac Wants (But Will Never Ask For) In A Relationship
Cancer: Someone to care for them in exactly the same way as they do.
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Healing From A Toxic Relationship Won’t Happen Overnight
You have to make the conscious decision to change, to better yourself, to put your past in the past.
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More Women Are Using CBD Products Than Ever Before, But Is It Right For You?
From anxiety to period pain, women are using CBD to treat a variety of ailments. If you’re interested in experiencing CBD for yourself, there’s a California-based website that will legally…
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If You’re Thinking About Moving In Together, Read This
If you ask me, you shouldn’t just do it for the cost savings. Make sure you’re really ready.
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This Is What The Month Of April Has In Store For You Based On Your Zodiac Sign
You feel burnt out and in need of some R&R right about now, Taurus. Take this month to recharge your batteries and work on improving your mental health.
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How Each Zodiac’s Personality Will Shift During Aries Season
Pisces: For the entirety of the season, you are going to find yourself getting angry over small, meaningless things.
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For All The 20-Something Girls Who Feel Like Screwups
I’m supposed to love myself. I’m not supposed to delete selfies. I’m not supposed to criticize myself every time I walk passed a mirror. I’m not supposed to struggle with…
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Don’t Settle Down Until You Find Someone As Weird As You
Don’t settle for someone you have to put on an act around. Don’t settle for someone who makes you feel like you have to hold back your weirdness in order…
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I Keep My Expectations Low
My pessimism hasn’t helped me in the long run. It has only made me grouchier, more paranoid, less approachable. I keep my expectations low in order to protect my heart,…
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Strong Women Deserve To Be Weak Every Once In A While
Sometimes, just sometimes, you’d like to take off the armor. You’d like to not have to swat away the words. You’d like to stop building from the pieces that have…
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And This Too Shall Pass
Life will keep moving forward. It will not wait for you to realize what’s happening around you or for you to embrace change.
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What It Means When Someone With Anxiety Says They’re Busy
I’m busy trying to catch my breath. Breathe in, breathe out. Repeat.
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Read This If You’re Always Seeking Change
We don’t want to settle for a life where we aren’t our best and we aren’t getting our best.
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33 Stupidly Simple Romantic Gestures That Show You’re Putting Effort Into The Relationship
Light non-sexual touching. Light hand on the thigh while riding in the car. Brushing your hand over the small of their back when passing behind. Drawing your fingers over their…
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Read This On The Days When Facing The World Is Hard
I’m also here to tell you that despite how broken you feel and despite how hard it is to be in the world today, you are not going to feel…
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6 Uncomfortable Signs You’re Actually Living A Happy And Fulfilled Life
Outgrowing certain people and activities can be one of the most bittersweet signs of personal growth.
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If You Broke Up With Her, Would We Be Friends Again?
I can’t figure out why you would stop talking to me out of nowhere.
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When You Love Someone, You Figure Out The Future Together
When you love someone, you make mistakes together. You take steps backward together. You recover together. You fumble through the world together.
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I Care Too Much About Others And Too Little About Myself
Sometimes I let my roots grow long. Sometimes I let my nails get chipped. Sometimes I run on coffee instead of sleep. Sometimes I forget to put effort into myself…
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It’s Hard To Forgive Someone Toxic When Their Baggage Is Still Weighing You Down
Everyone keeps telling me to forgive you. They tell me it will help in the healing process. They tell me it will lift a weight off my shoulders. They tell…
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Stop Staying In The Wrong Relationships Because You Feel Like It’s As Good As You’re Going To Get
Just because you’re with someone who treats you well doesn’t mean you’re with the right person. Just because nothing is technically wrong doesn’t mean everything is going well.
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A Love Letter To Those Who Can’t Hold Onto Hope Any Longer
I can’t say I know the whole story of how you got here or what caused you to fall.
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If You’re Not Convinced That Everything Happens For A Reason
Truth be told, I consider myself to be a firm believer in this statement—an advocate, even.
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Here Are The Top Three Potential Matches For You, Based On Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type
Read this to know who to date if you want someone to balance you out, if you want someone to challenge you, or if you want someone who makes you…
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If This Were My Book The Ending Would Be So Different
I woke up today in a world where you’re no longer even a text away.
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Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
Have you ever felt like you needed to get something off your chest, have that last word, or say your peace?
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You Don’t Need The Fab Five To ‘Queer Eye’ Yourself
There’s something so therapeutic about watching someone grow past their insecurities through the love and empathy of five total strangers who swoop into their lives to tell them that yes,…
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I Hope You Find Someone Who Loves You At Your Very Worst
I hope they tell you that they are not afraid to hear about the mistakes you have made, the actions you’re not proud of, and the decisions that still haunt…
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I Love My Body, But I Still Struggle With Wanting To Be Perfect
Despite being the first one to say that I’m perfect the way I am, I also regularly have thoughts about wishing I was thinner.
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To The Exes Who Have Made Us Who We Are Today
Just because we’re not together anymore doesn’t mean there are hard feelings between us.
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One Day, I Will Meet Someone New
Love has left scars that never seem to heal. Pain that never seems to go away. But I know that it won’t last forever. Because someday, I will meet someone…
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Here Are 8 True Crime Documentaries You Need To Watch
Witnesses can give false statements, the convicted might be wrongfully accused, and the convicted can sometimes even be coerced into giving false testimonies. That’s the tea.
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If You’re Looking For Love To Make You Whole Again, Read This
If you’re looking for a love to make you whole again, don’t look out there.
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I Promise That You Are Growing, Even In The Dark
To be human is to understand that happiness isn’t a constant. But to be human is to understand that neither is sorrow, or grief, or heartache. To be human is…
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Your Forever Person Should Have Their Own Life — But It Should Overlap Yours
Your forever person shouldn’t hide you away inside their apartment. They shouldn’t restrict date nights to watching Netflix and grabbing fast food to eat back at their place.
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20 30-Year-Olds Reveal Their Biggest Regrets About Their 20s
“Losing friends. Also gaining a lot of weight I’m now having a hard time getting rid of. Eat healthy, kids.”
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This Is Everything Love Should Be
Love should make you a better version of the human that you are—and it should continue to do that always.
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I Only Want You Because I Can’t Have You
Wanting what you can’t have will always be a guilty pleasure.
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Our Fear Of Vulnerability Is Ruining Modern Dating
If we aren’t authentic and vulnerable, we have absolutely no right to complain about how challenging it is to find someone who is authentic and genuine.
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Thank You For Playing Pretend
You wanted someone to care about you. You needed someone to care about you. You are a coward.
