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15 Soul-Crushing Scenarios That Are So Much Better Than Making Small Talk
Living with someone on the Paleo diet.
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14 Things I’d Like To Say To My Depression
You aren’t at fault for all my burning. Sometimes, it’s just me.
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15 Different 20-Somethings Reveal The One Piece Of Love Advice They Wish They’d Totally Ignored
“Definitely ignore the ‘wait three days before calling or texting’ rule. That is bullshit. My now-wife and I went on our first date when we were in college, and I…
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17 Times Your Coupled-Off Friends Are Jealous Of Your Single Status
They’re forever jealous that at pretty much any point you can walk into a party and get some.
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21 Things You Need To Know About Dating A Guarded Extrovert
Being “extroverted” and being “forthcoming” are two very different things that are not guaranteed to go hand-in-hand.
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17 Things You Thought Were Gross As A Kid That You Become Obsessed With As An Adult
The fermented grape stuff your parents used to bring out when the neighbors came over that stained everyone’s mouths red and made them laugh at the weirdest shit? Gross. The…
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What Each Myers-Briggs Personality Type Looks Like When They’re Thriving
ISFPs take on new projects with enthusiasm and are able to see them through to completion – making peace with the ever-elusive concept of ‘perfection.’
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10 Ways You’re Making Your Relationship Harder Than It Has To Be
You assume that true love should be easy.
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I Wonder If I Will Remember This As The Winter Where Everyone Died
I drove up to the big lake yesterday because I wanted to see freshwater instead of all that ice, ice, ice.
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20 Weird Things That Inevitably Happen To Every Girl Who Kicks It With The Bros
You are the guinea pig of their tragic pickup lines and attempts at flirting. So for the love of God (and hope for all the females out there) help them…
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When The One You Could Love Forever Slips Away
You captivate me with your passions and send me positively mad with want and need. You make me wild and naive and a single kiss from you is enough to…
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Quiz: Which Myers-Briggs Personality Type Were You In A Past Life
Take this quiz to find out which type you were in a past life, and how it affects you today.
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This Perfect Tumblr Post Explains Why True Love Actually Gets Even Better Over Time
Maybe love isn’t an intense shot of tequila as much as it is a long sip of well-matured wine.
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Quiz: Which ‘Law And Order: SVU’ Detective Are You?
Which “Law and Order: SVU” character is your spirit animal??
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My Grandfather Worked At An Insane Asylum And I Found His Personal Logs Dating Back To 1902 (Part Seven)
Taken by the witch. To read these words gives me some pause. Some ten years have passed without the tapping at the window, without the fingers dragging through dark hair,…
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17 Reasons Why Not Having A Baby Means You’re Winning At Life
You can’t take a baby out shopping or out for an overpriced craft cocktail. Department stores don’t have daycare centers and wine bars don’t have highchairs (thank God).
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15 Things To Know About Dating A Girl Who Really Loves Beer
Someday she’ll probably burp and it will shake the foundation of your home. Hazard of the hops.
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14 Tiny Lies You Owe It To Yourself To Quit Telling
Stop letting the inherit need to not rock the boat keep you from getting things off your chest. It’s not whatever; it’s important. You’re not whatever. You’re important.
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Why ‘Don’t Work Too Hard’ Is Actually AWFUL Advice
I can’t think of a single thing worth doing that doesn’t involve a modicum of hard work. In fact, hard work is actually the only proven method to advance the…
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I Don’t Know How To Not Be In Love With Him
It’s hard wanting more, but knowing better than to seek it. It’s hard maintaining an expectation-free, non-attachment relationship with someone I expect things from and feel attached to.
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Read This If You Just Need Someone To Give You A Chance At Your Dream Job
There’s something for you. It’s right around you.
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This Is How I Know I’m Over You
I have no knowledge of what your life is any more — and finally, I’ve learned that that’s alright.
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Top 20 Songs Of 2015: A Year Of Post-Irony And Nostalgia
2015 made for an intriguing year in music and culture. From the drab mystery that is Trump to Oxford’s word of the year, the line between the joke and the…
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I Did A Three Day Juice Cleanse And Here’s What Honestly Happened
For the past few months, I’ve felt like a potato. Kind of sad, unmoving, semi-mashed. I was doing a successful job of ignoring my health and pulling the “I’ll deal…
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Tick Tock: It’s Time To Stop Bullying 30-Something Women About Their Biological Clocks
My 35th birthday looms ahead, taunting me with the promise of missed opportunities and lifelong regrets if I don’t spread my legs and invite some sperm in stat.
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15 Struggles Only People Who Look Ridiculously Young For Their Age Can Relate To
You have to literally prove your age to some especially annoying nonbelievers.
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This Is What We Fail To Understand About Effort In Relationships
Feeling is why we do EVERYTHING in our lives. We spend our days striving to feel a certain way. We want to feel the satisfaction of sex, love, attention, admiration,…
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A High School Friend Is Being Charged With Attempted Murder And, As A Medium, I’m Going To Use My Gifts To Help Her (Part Five)
Can you imagine? Can you imagine being on a plane one moment…just having landed from a vacation and the next moment, you are being hauled off in a pair of…
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22 Tiny Things You Should Do For Yourself Every Single Day
Remind yourself that your body is not something for you or others to judge – it’s a vessel that allows you to explore the world, communicate with others, try new…
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17 Things To Do If You Feel Like Relapsing
Feel your muscles lengthening from your fingertips down to your shoulders. Bend your knees and straighten them. Carefully move your body into slow and gentle stretches, knowing you are honoring…
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16 Ways To Unleash Your Inner Child That Are Somewhat Acceptable In Adulthood
It’s weird that a Spongebob laptop case is harmless, but if you buy a Spongebob bedspread you’re instantly judged. It’s not a crime that the characters who made us happy…
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50 Simple, Positive Things You Need To Do For Yourself After A Breakup
1. Get a haircut. A wow-you-look-amazing haircut to chop off the dead ends and start completely fresh.
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10 Things That Happen When You Joined A Sorority In College But Are The Opposite Of A Sorority Girl
When you go to reunions with other alumni and everyone sings sorority songs at the top of their lungs you silently move your lips hoping to fool everyone that you…
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9 Confessions From A Skinny Girl With An Eating Disorder
The difference between being thin and being skinny is that when you’re skinny, everyone is constantly trying to get you to eat. As if you are deliberately starving yourself.
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8 Reasons People Who Travel Make The Best Employees
The place to find the perfect out-of-the-box thinkers, problem solvers, and movers and shakers is the arrivals hall at an international airport.
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A History Of Trying To Be Cool
It’s such a terrible feeling to want to reject who you are. The reality is that I was not built to be an Olsen twin. I was not built to…
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Listening To Hollaback Girl And Trying To Not Text You (Because I’m Not A Hollaback Girl)
I don’t know how I’m supposed to pretend you don’t turn my stomach into a butterfly mortuary, that they flew around so fast and frantic, all of them died. I’m…
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I Could Taste Her Broken Heart
She tasted like the wine I swam in when I was freshly broken, and like the confusion I once called my best friend. She reminded me of the huckleberries we’d…
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The Difference Between Dating A Boy And Dating A Man
A boy underestimates you. A man is not afraid to challenge you, because he knows what you’re capable of.
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17 Heart-Punching Quotes That Will Make You Fall In Love With Poetry (Part Two)
“How reckless, the way that I love like the first chapter of a ghost story. Like the gentlest hand reaching out of a grave.”
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They Are Never Worth The Chase
Thinking back on it, all of my life so far, I have let boys set my self-esteem and self-worth for me. And for what? For miserable nights picking out every…
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Cheating Really Means, ‘I Never Loved You.’
If you cheat, what you’ve really done is said, “I don’t love you. I never loved you. I never respected you. I never cared for you. All of this was…
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21 Ways To Stop Regretting The Past And Finally Move On
Stop treating yourself inhumanely. You’ve punished yourself way beyond what is just for any perceived or real crimes you may have committed by forever berating yourself.
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A Pep Talk For When You’re Afraid You’ve Succumbed To A Life Of Mediocrity
Regardless of what mediocrity means to you, the common denominator is about being comfortable. Too comfortable to try, too comfortable to take a risk, too comfortable to disrupt what you’ve…
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This Is What Is Left When You Lose Someone You Love
I don’t know, exactly, what it is I want to hear. But I know I like the sound of your voice, the way you grab my chin, and pull my…
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Hiding Out In An Abandoned Cabin Was One Of The Worst Mistakes I Ever Made
“I saw you on the news. That guy got shot at your house and now they are looking for you, but can’t find you. A lot of people think you…
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Quiz: What Kind Of Trip Should You Take This Year?
From backwoods to beaches, what should you do to destress this year?
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It’s Not Just The Wind: 12 Times A Pet Sensed A Paranormal Presence Before Its Owner Did
“At that moment, a little girl’s voice came from the vent in the floor next to me. Haywood came and sat beside me as though he was protecting me, growling…
