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5 Practical Steps To Take If You Are Struggling To Choose A Career Path
You are probably the 3,024,124th person who has struggled to work out what career path to follow. (Really. You’re not alone.)
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I’m Spending My Life Longing For My Other Half
I feel so disconnected from my friends, my family, the world around me.
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17 Things Single People Can Do To Survive Valentine’s Day
Alone with pizza is better than alone alone.
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Keeping It Casual: 9 Ways To Ensure Things Don’t Get Too Serious
They might not be for everyone, but the somewhat-string-attached relationship can really be a boon to one’s everyday existence, if done in a responsible and mature manner
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Dear Women, Please Stop. Just Really, Stop.
What is it with this competition among women now?
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21 Things You Should Never Be Embarrassed About
How many likes and comments you get on social media. I don’t know when it became a contest to have every status about what you ate for lunch harvest 20…
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19 Women Share The Weirdest, Grossest, Craziest Things They’ve Done For Their Best Friend
Helped her find a condom that had slipped off during sex and became stuck way up inside her.
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9 Myths About Young Parents – And The Reality Behind Them
Assuming all young parents are like Teem Mom is like assuming that all 40+ women are about that Real Housewife life.
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The Difference Between Loneliness And Being Alone
It’s walking to the wine shop while listening to that song you love and buying the second-cheapest bottle of wine — because even though you have no money, you deserve…
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7 Reasons You Absolutely Shouldn’t Snoop In Your S.O.’s Facebook
1. It turns out that if you feel like you can’t trust them but you snoop through their messages, you’re the untrustworthy one.
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Don’t Tell Me That You Miss Me
Don’t add in “I miss you” as the reason you suggest we grab coffee and catch up sometime. When we both know we’ll never make good on that promise.
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7 Ways To Travel Outside Your Comfort Zone
Does travel always equal going outside your comfort zone?
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The Lost Art Of Being Okay
Humans are, after all, connected by mutual experiences of hurt and triumph. We resist it because we’ve lost sight of the beauty in simply being.
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You Can’t Forget That You Deserve Kindness, Too
It’s not selfish to accept selfless kindness and selfless love.
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To The Boy That Left In The Morning
This is our game. It’s mutually understood, there are no repercussions.
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11 Signs Your Boyfriend Is Probably A Sociopath
My friend and I always joke that we only date sociopaths (also known as: soce, soce-eee-ohhh; soce-with-the-most; Brocio a.k.a. the Bro-soce).
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Be The Girl That Travels
Like it, love it, and cherish it. It’s yours, and only yours.
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Overcoming Gender Inequality In The Workplace As A Woman
Immediately after graduation, I dove headfirst into the 9 to 5 beast, knowing very little about what to expect from co-workers and office life outside of my university incubation chamber.
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Hi, I Am Amy Glass
Will you insist that reality is nuanced, or demand that it is black and white?
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I Fell In Love With A Married Guy And I’m Not Really Into Apologizing For It
He was married at the time, but in our moment nuptials didn’t matter. Nothing did.
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The 20 Rules Of Being A Modern Gentleman
You are kind but straightforward about your intentions– you don’t leave people questioning or hanging, and you certainly don’t use people for your own selfish desires.
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18 Perfect Things About The First Weeks Of Dating Someone You’re Really Into
The excruciating period of time between when you realize you’re in love with them and when you actually get the nerve to say it.
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101 Things That Are More Important Than What Your Body Looks Like
It’s hard to feel like physical appearance doesn’t take precedence when it’s our chief focus.
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The 9 Most Stressful Things About Grad School
The only way to escape the constant nagging of “agenda anxiety” is to have a glass of wine, or two, or three.
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My Medical School Classmate Stole Human Brains From The Library, But That Wasn’t Even The Creepiest Thing He Did
It’s not every day you get to meet someone famous…
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28 Signs You Were Raised In A Catholic Household
You’re still unclear on the idea of the Holy Spirit and why he has to be present at every middle school dance.
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15 Reasons Cousins Make The Best Friends
Family parties are infinitely more entertaining when you have a group of you that can retreat from the holiday madness and just hang out and/or observe your hilarious relatives who…
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29 People Share Their Close Encounters With Murderers
I talked to a kid from my school that got caught planning to bomb us during an assembly. It’s sad because he was a nice and smart kid.
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I Always Thought Something Was Off About My Basement, But I Had No Idea How Terrifying The Truth Was
My life was perfect. Then it began.
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The Silver Lining In Failure: At Least You Had The Courage To Try
Because most people quit. Most people let the silence press them down, dim their screaming passion to a dull drone. We mustn’t let it.
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20 Reasons Why Bugs Bunny Cartoons Make Life Way More Awesome
This Saturday morning cartoon marathon will throw you back to childhood so fast you just might taste cereal.
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Revolutionize Your Love Life: Tell People You Like Them
Get your feelings hurt. Get your egos bruised. Get called a “creep” or whatever else people will say.
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I’m Competing With An iPhone 5 For My Wife’s Attention
Before my wife acquired her iPhone 5, she and I shared a lot of moments together.
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The 13 Wittiest Literary Lines You’ll Ever Read
“And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
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Information Vs. Knowledge Vs. Experience
The perfect opportunity you keep picturing in your head? That’s your ego protecting you from change — the feeling of pain and failure that is deliberate practice and experimentation.
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27 Hilarious Spelling Mistakes That People On Twitter Can’t Stop Making
STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW AND READ THIS.
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18 Heartbreaking Signs You Are In An Unrequited Friendship
You often use the term “bff” to describe them. They have never used those words to describe you.
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10 Things You’ll Inevitably Do After Your Relationship Ends
3. Break into tears over absolutely nothing
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21 Pieces Of Relationship “Advice” You Should Always Ignore
“You should settle down by [insert age here], it’s all downhill from there.”
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12 Funniest Whose Line Is It Anyway? Skits Of All Time
I hope that these clips leave you laughing and nostalgic for the times you spent laughing with the family.
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This Anti-Skipping School Ad Is The Most Disturbing Thing I’ve Ever Seen
Okay, a few words of warning: This “Stay In School” PSA from Australia is graphic. It is not safe for work. It is awesome.
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21 Things You Didn’t Know About World War II
Coco Chanel was an active Nazi collaborator, and was even dating a high-ranking SS officer.
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36 People On The Best Mistake They’ve Ever Made
On one of our first dates, my wife and I decided to go to a park in Chicago just to walk around. After we left, we realized that we were…
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23 Life Lessons You Get From Having An Italian Mother
“When are you getting married?” is not a question, it is a way of life.
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31 Truck Drivers Reveal Their Crazy, Bizarre And Wild Experiences On The Road
People might think it’s an easy job, but imagine being on the road for 18 hours, hauling 10 tons of whatever-it-is, without anyone to talk to, but the drone of…
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7 Reasons Soccer Is More Than Just A Sport
It’s not just a ball that is kicked up and down the field.
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Please Respect My Phobia
A child suffering of fear of the dark is not subject for ridicule or torment. Her parents do not follow her around the house, switching off lights. She is not…