To Everyone Who Asks For ‘Just A Little’ Of Your Time: Here’s What It Costs To Say Yes
Even if they are serious opportunities, even if it will only take 15 minutes, even if it’s something that everyone else does, I’d like to avoid it.
Even if they are serious opportunities, even if it will only take 15 minutes, even if it’s something that everyone else does, I’d like to avoid it.
I am good at real. And this might scare you, too- but you just might need someone like me to push you where you want to go.
There’s a fantasy across society that ‘love and relationships’ is the one area of life where you can achieve amazing results, without putting in any effort.
Quite frankly, we aren’t asking for too much. Just be honest and faithful, and the rest will fall into place. Just love us for everything we are, and we will change your entire world.
Before date one, you have to ask yourself a critical question: Will pictures of you and your hypothetical new lover be a hit on Instagram? If the answer is no, how can he possibly be the one?
Chasing after the person will only make him or her go farther away from you.
“Four years apart is a long time. I still love her, but I’m not in love with her anymore.”
Philosophies that depict pain as an illusion rather than a legitimate, lived reality can be downright dangerous. They encourage victim-blaming and spiritual bypassing that harms the survivor more than they help. What we have to remember is that our perceptions of trauma are not due to erroneous thinking – they are due to egregiously damaging acts of emotional and physical violence.