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How To Love A Best Friend Who Doesn’t Love Herself
Loving a self-deprecating best friend is easy. Knowing she doesn’t love herself is the hard part.
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How To Be The Greatest Antagonist To Your Own Happiness
Feel unconcerned about your lackluster job or your repetitive days or the fact that you’re not trying in any way whatsoever; feel unconcerned because you’re convinced that somehow it will…
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Here’s The Scariest Horror Movie That Takes Place In Every State
Turns out that no matter where you live, terror can find you. And it will.
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Why Are We Still Obsessed With Loving The Bad Boy?
Why go for the person with the “He Makes People Feel Like Shit” reputation? Is it a self-loathing thing?
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15 Things You Should Stop Letting People Do To You
Stop letting people give you the advice they’re not taking.
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Read This If You’re Tired Of Constantly Trying To Live Up To Society’s Standard Of Beauty
We have to start complimenting girls on their intelligence, courage, determination and good heart instead of always trying to find beauty on their outside appearance.
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40 Thought-Provoking Questions To Ask Yourself If You Want To Live An Emotionally Healthy Life
Have I become comfortable with my life for the sake of self-preservation?
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I Am Still Haunted By You
I remember how much I loved you. And I remember how much you loved me. And I remember the love, the lust, the beginning and the end. How can you…
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Without You, I Am The Kind Of Broken That Can’t Be Fixed
I am the kind of broken that only comes when so many pieces are shattered off the whole that it forgets it ever painted a picture at all.
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I Don’t Want To Be The Bigger Person Today
No. I want to stick out my tongue like a child and roll my eyes when you speak. I want to call you out on your B.S. and shout your…
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To The One Who Was Not ‘The One’
I learned that in relationships it’s better to break your own heart and save yourself from falling apart.
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Repeat After Me: Stop. Following. Your. Ex. On. Social. Media.
Block them. On everything. And anything. When you don’t see their pictures pop up everywhere on your newsfeed, you will start to adapt to a life without them.
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9 Urban Legends That Scared The Sh*t Out Of You As A Kid
A teenage girl had been hired to babysit for a family in a neighboring town. The family was wealthy and the house was large…
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5 Ways To Know If You Can Repair Your Broken Relationship (Or If You Should Just Move On)
Sometimes love cannot outlast the sense that one or both of you isn’t following your ideal life plan.
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Why Men Pull Away: 12 Guys Reveal The Reason They Drift
Honestly when I start pulling away it’s because I am talking to someone else.
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What Your Enneagram Type Is Not An Excuse For
Being a type 7 does not give you the right to disappear or flake on the commitments you’ve made because you see something more exciting on the horizon.
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Love Is A Choice, Choose It Over Fear
We fear intimacy, being vulnerable, being seen as weak, being seen as imperfect. What I am struggling with understanding, is why our fears are so much more important than love.
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15 ENTPs Explain The Ways In Which They Defy The ENTP Stereotype
“I don’t take any pleasure in arguing. I take pleasure in deconstructing a concept and looking at it from all sides. ”
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This Is How We Will Travel The World Together
I will smile, thinking about the fact that with every new experience you are pressed into me more and more, like a stamp in my passport.
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‘Odysseus Is A Douchebag’ And 31 Other Hilarious Answers From Actual Student Essays
I don’t know if Hamlet’s attitude changes because I haven’t been reading the play. I haven’t been reading because I dislike Shakespeare or Sphere or however you spell that.
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‘Beautiful’ Is Just A String Of Letters, Not Your Identity
We give it power because we want to, and honestly? There are at least a hundred other things you can be, you should want to be other than beautiful.
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9 Reasons It Takes A Strong Man To Date A Single Mom
Dating in any circumstance has its obstacles of course. Throw a couple kids into the mix and you my friend will have a whole shitstorm of challenges ahead of you.
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40 Times Instagram’s ‘My Therapist Says’ Proved They Know Exactly What You’re Thinking
The most hilarious posts from one of the funniest Instagram accounts out there.
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15 Reasons Why Dating A Girl Who Reads Will Enhance Your Life
You don’t have to worry about being misunderstood, she can write essays about you.
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25 Weird But Heartwarming Ways To Explain Exactly What Love Is
Love is like dancing. Doing it right requires shelving any concern about how ridiculous you might look in the process.
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Right Here Is Exactly Where You’re Meant To Be
As I watched my friends tease one another, spill drinks, talk, and toast this random, insignificant Thursday night, I felt a sense of peace.
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20 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Your Life If You Want To Be Happy
In order to share love and stability with someone else, you should first learn how to create it yourself. Once you are at peace with yourself, the rest will come.
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15 Wildly Successful People Who Completely Failed Before Achieving Their Dream
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe
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What Happens When I Use ‘The B Word’
What if it is just a phase? What if I change my mind? What if my mother’s right?
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Why The Saddest Day Of Your Twenties Is The Day You Move Away From Your Best Friend
You can’t help but feel like the best era of your life is coming to a close.
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8 Reasons Why ‘Culture Shock’ Can Change Your Life For The Better
Sometimes we have to travel far away to find ourselves, and sometimes changing what’s outside is the only way to change what’s inside.
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Love With Abandon, Love Without Looking For An Escape
If you are going to love someone, you need to love them with all of your heart, all of your soul.
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I May Be A Fool, But You Are A Coward
You pulled my strings and made me dance because you were afraid to let yourself lose control.
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Get To Know Three Of Thought Catalog’s Most Promising Young Writers
We’re working with Taco Bell to support young writers through their innovative Feed the Stories program.
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24 INFPs Explain The Ways In Which They Defy The INFP Stereotype
“I’m an INFP, not some hippie princess cinnamon roll that cries in the corner 90% of the time and frolics through meadows the other 10%.”
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What Everyone Desperately Wishes You’d Stop Doing, Based On Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type
INTP: Constantly talking down to everyone, just to prove that you’ve read more books than they have.
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I Know How To Be Intoxicated, But I Don’t Know How To Be In Love
I don’t know why it always feels like a game that I must win.
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A Love Letter To The Best Friends I Found In Adulthood
My love for you comes in quite ordinary moments. Sitting at a group dinner and feeling that I have a lot to learn from you and my other soulmates, that…
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All I Know For Sure Is How Much I Love you
I am not the type of person who knows exactly what I want to do with my life. My chameleon mind soars in and out of different realities, different scenarios.
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Ranking The Women On This Season Of ‘The Bachelor’: Someone Is About To Be In A World Of Pain
Jojo thinks it’s game over.
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The 50 Rules Of Girl Code We All Need To Start Following Right This Second
This is the year of your girlfriends. So freshen up on your girl code with these 50 rules.
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If You’re Afraid Of Death, You’ll Never Want To Hear What Happens When It Doesn’t Quite Take
There was a time when I was controversial, but society swayed heavily in my favor the past two decades. There used to be debate about whether or not I should…
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17 Signs You’re Actually An Elderly Person Hiding In A Young Body
If you’re sitting down, it’s pretty much guaranteed you have a blanket draped across your lap.
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6 Weirdly Effective Hotel Hacks That Make Living Out Of A Suitcase So Much Easier
Sometimes you have to get creative in your hotel room when you realize you forgot something at home or you just don’t have the things you need.
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25 Promises You Should Make To Yourself Today For A Better Tomorrow
Promise yourself to do more of what makes you happy, even if you have to do it alone.
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What Happens When Two People Don’t Love Equally
When two people don’t love equally, there’s a giant elephant sitting patiently in the room. Nobody wants to speak of its presence, to admit they both know it’s there.
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12 Things You’re Carrying With You That Are Only Weighing You Down
The ideal job you’re still waiting for.
