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13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering
We’re exploring the world in greater numbers year by year, challenging the status quo and proving, not only to others but also to ourselves, just how strong and independent we…
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58 Facebook Posts That Prove Old People Are Totally Hilarious On Social Media
LOL these are so hilarious. Old people are the best!
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26 Time-Saving Hacks That Every 20-Something Needs To Try Right Now
Download Boomerang and schedule out emails. It will save your life.
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To The Man Who Made Me Doubt My Beauty
My beauty comes out the most when I’m happy. I look the most beautiful when I’m doing something I love.
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24 Things That Happen When You’re In A Happy Relationship
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
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12 Things I Need My Future Husband To Know
Being your wife will be an honor, but it won’t be my identity. I am so proud to be part of your life, to grow old together, to share whatever…
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21 People Share Their Favorite Movie To Watch When Everything Seriously Sucks
“The Princess Bride!!! I watch it whenever I’m sick, or just feeling kind of down.”
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You Will Love Again, But It Will Never Be Exactly The Same
Love is not something you get a singular shot at. Love is like energy — it cannot be created nor destroyed; it only transforms from one form to another. It…
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I Decided To Throw A Party While My Parents Were Gone, But The Horrific Things That Happened Made Me Wish They Never Left
I looked closely at the photo. At first glance, it was just your typical drunk high school party group photo. However, on the far right of the picture was the…
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Live: A Medium And I Are Trying To Contact The Dead While Staying Overnight In One Of America’s Most Haunted Houses
We are on a mission to make contact with the Lemp family from beyond the grave and see what we can do to help these lost souls who appear to…
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30 Short Affirmations For Everyone Who Is Ready To Stop Doubting Themselves
“There is always light at the end of the tunnel. That light is within me.”
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THIS JUST IN: Life Is Really, Really Hard
Some days, I’d trade in all this emotional intelligence to be a cow just grazing along. Happy. Content. Not crippled by anxiety. Totally unaware that I’m about to become someone’s…
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It’s Time To Stop Apologizing For Who You Are
Stop apologizing for who you are and just be. Be silly, be strange, be happy, be crazy, be independent, be in love, be unafraid, be nervous, be strong, be okay…
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For All The Girls Who Think He’s Looking For A Reason To Leave
You’re scared that someone could love you the same way you love them, but he’s not waiting for a reason to leave, he’s waiting for you to accept that he…
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Date Someone You Can Go To Disney With
I want someone who will happily sing along to the songs we hear, even if it’s the hundredth time he’s heard it that day.
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I’m Not Good At Dating, But I Know How To Love
See, I’m not good at dating, at small talk, at stuffy dinner dates where we skirt around the deep questions because we don’t want to scare each other off. I…
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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.
