Nico Lang

Well, if you’re not going to get that gym membership (a perennial list marker), you might as well actually read those 10,000 books you always say you’re going to get around to. 

I know we all want to skip to the ending — the parts where you host game nights together and do the Sunday crossword in bed — but don’t forget to just enjoy the ride, even if that means you aren’t “Facebook official” yet.

When they know what size you wear.

“Who’s Martin Scorsese?”

Manson took Scientology classes and then murdered a bunch of people, after deciding that Scienology was “too crazy” for him. Process that.

Your Snuggie isn’t built for two.

They refuse to communicate what is wrong, any time that something is wrong, until whatever was wrong blows up five months later into something that is much worse than the argument that might have ensued had they just accepted your invitation to talk about it in the first place.

Because it doesn’t matter how interesting, sexy or good in bed they are if they don’t treat you well or make you hate yourself.

Kiss them like it’s going to be hung on someone’s wall someday, as a reminder of what love can be like.

You make your coffee so strong no one else will drink it and other people will actually beg you not to make coffee.

Date someone who wants what you want, who is open to the idea of the relationship you desire with another human being. You need to be with people who are open to what you have to give to them and are willing to match it.