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In Defense Of Single Women Who Travel
When I was in high school my psychology teacher asked us to illustrate a small picture book of what we predicted would happen throughout the course of our lives.
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21 INFJs Share The Piece Of Wisdom That Turned Their Lives Around
“No matter how positive your daydreams or visions of the world are, or how good of a person you are, your vision for the world won’t come true if you…
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7 Reasons She’s Scared To Open Up To You, And How To Earn Her Trust So That She Will
Know that she’s hesitant because she doesn’t want her feelings to scare you as much as they scare her.
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Just Because I Like You, Doesn’t Mean I Want To Marry You
When I say I like it means I want to see if I can trust you. I want to see if I can be myself around you, if I can…
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41 Perfect Ways To Say ‘Sorry Not Sorry’ (Cause You’re Not, Like At All)
“When somebody calls you a bitch but they ain’t wrong…”
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15 INTJs Share The Piece Of Wisdom That Turned Their Lives Around
“Poor planning on someone else’s part is not an emergency that I need to fix.”
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You Have To Love An Introvert Differently
We don’t need space because we want to break up, or because we don’t want to spend time with you. We need space because that is how we nourish ourselves,…
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No Matter How Hard I Search, I’m Never Going To Find Another You
Lately I’ve been entertaining the notion that We can be irreparably broken.
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I Never Thought That I Would Have To Ask Someone To Love Me While I Was Still So Unloveable
It never occurred to me that some problems don’t get fixed.
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I Like It Best When It’s Just You And Me
I like the world best when it’s just you and me. Because together, we create the kind of world I want to live in. The kind of world I am…
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Why Two Broken People Are Never Capable Of Loving Each Other
There was something unexplainable in us, and it may be love, but it may also be not. The pain that wrapped our hearts blinded us both.
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29 People Confess The Weird, Quirky Thing They Do When No One Else Is Around
“I put my finger in my belly button and then smell it.”
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My Friend Came To Visit My Family But I Don’t Think Mama Will Ever Let Her Leave
I was careful at first. I said Mama had rules. There weren’t a lot of rules but they were important to follow because Mama knew best about these sorts of…
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Depression: A War With Myself (But Now I’m A Warrior)
I fought in the heat of a serious battle. I have scars that are internal.
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We Were Always Different
I wanted to go to the beach and swim deeper into the ocean, you wanted to stay by the shore — away from all the waves. I was looking for…
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I Should Have Believed My Daughter When She Told Me About The Thing Living Under The Bed
A strange little shiver crept up my spine at that. He likes the dark. Kids are creepy. Shaking off the feeling, I walked across the room and checked under the…
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8 Realistic And Fair Expectations You Can Put On Your Relationship
Love rarely hits you like a bolt of lightning. Some of the best and most successful relationships started slowly and with little to no expectation. A slow and steady burn…
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Just So You Know, You Don’t Have To Be Everything To Everyone
Life is difficult. There’s no denying that. And people need one another—for support, for love, for strength. And you? You are the type of person who provides that, willingly and…
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The 3 Stages of Love (Where Are You?)
The only way to lasting fulfillment in relationship is by offering my love freely without expecting anything in return for it.
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12 ENTPs Share The Piece Of Wisdom That Turned Their Lives Around
“Freedom has nothing to do with your physical confines or situation. It’s a state of mind.”
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17 People On Why They Wouldn’t Trade Their Relationship For The World
“Waking up every morning knowing the person you love is sleeping by your side.”
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22 Prince Quotes All About Love, Life, And Being Unapologetically Yourself
“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
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19 Struggles Of Being An Extremely Short-Waisted Girl
You’re constantly at a crossroads between wearing the only jeans that look good on you (aka: low-rise) or exposing your butt crack to the world. #TheStruggleIsReal
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17 People Reveal The Surprising Reasons Being Single Doesn’t Have To Suck
“Being able to do whatever YOU want. Not having to maybe do something you’re not crazy about to make your significant other happy.”
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If Only I’d Known That It Would Be Our Last Valentine’s Day
We were supposed to meet. We were supposed to end. It took me a while, but I see how romantic that is.
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I’ve Been A Contract Killer For 40 Years But My Last Hit Was So Chilling I’ll Never Kill Again
I could wax poetic about the futility of human endeavor until I sounded like some acne-scarred teenager on an internet forum, but that’s not why I’m here today. You see,…
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30 Iconic Quotes To Help You Overcome The Fear Of Failure
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” — Richard Branson
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8 Real, Absolutely Terrifying Murders We’re Still Obsessed With
Death is what we fear, but to some people, it’s their drug. To murder is to feel, and to feel is to live, one might say.
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10 ENFJs Share The Piece Of Wisdom That Turned Their Lives Around
“You can’t love people into loving you.”
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You Cannot Outrun God
Take comfort in this: No matter where you go, what you do, the mistakes you make, how far you wander off the path, or what you try to wedge between…
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10 Crucial Lessons Your Almost Relationship Can Teach You
You can’t force something simply because you want it right now.
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41 Very Real ‘Girl Problems’ Only Millennials Can Appreciate
“People keep saying I have commitment issues but wine and I have been going steady for years.”
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You Have To Let Them Go To Be Whole Again
What I have begun to recognise in myself and others is that, more often than not, the fear of letting go isn’t really that at all, but a fear of…
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27 ENFPs Reveal The Piece Of Wisdom That Turned Their Life Around
The only bad decision is not to make one.
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I Still Miss You
I am not heartbroken anymore. Really, I’m not. I’m not just a girl saying that to convince everyone staring at her with inquisitive, intrusive eyes. I’m saying it because it’s…
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This Is Why Writers Get Their Hearts Broken The Worst
We torture ourselves by remembering the minuscule details about you, just so we can put it down on paper and create something worth reading.
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I Want To Run Away With You
I want to stain every city with our love; I want to steal countries from your heart so they can only ever belong to us.
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28 Of The Creepiest, Most Messed Up Graveyard Shift Stories You’ll Ever Read
She was facing away from us, as Frank approached her he asked if everything was okay, she sort of stopped crying and rolled over. When she did a wave of…
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I Only Miss You On Sundays
My bed grows three oceans wider and four arctics colder on Sunday mornings.
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29 Creepy Quotes That Will Make You Believe In Ghosts
“I like to say I believe in ghosts so I don’t get haunted by one.” — Ella Henderson
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When I Was Nineteen
I should have known he loved me when he left flowers at my doorstep ‘just because it was Thursday’.
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This Is Why I Write
I write about conversations I wish I could have. I write about a love I haven’t found yet.
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Maybe We Have A Lot Of Soulmates, But We’re Only Supposed To Choose One
This is what throws me. The idea that there’s only one person in the entire world you could make a beautiful life with. And that if you don’t find them,…
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Here Are The Creepiest Monster Legends From Every State In The Country
“Just as he glanced up to find the source of this strange noise a pair of large, talon-like claws grabbed onto the back of his shoulders, tearing his shirt and…
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23 Truthful Relationship Reminders For Anyone Who Wants Lasting Love
Unrealistic expectations don’t lead to Happily Ever After. They lead to the Land of Perpetual Disappointment. So enjoy romance all you want, but don’t romanticize your relationship.
