“Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.” — Jon D. Harrison I knew it was trouble the moment it smiled at me across the table, all charm and promise, dressed in good manners and eye contact — intention always looks hot before reality takes its makeup off. We love a good…
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The Art of Insistence
“Sometimes love doesn’t want answers. It wants proof.” Insistence in relationships is a funny sport. Not funny ha-ha — though it can be — but funny in the way a tiny issue can hijack an ordinary evening. One moment you’re watching TV, the next you’re insisting on an emotional debrief at 11:53pm, while your partner…
Read MoreThe Quiet Things We Don’t Say
There’s a particular kind of silence that only exists inside relationships. Not the nice silence. Not the Sunday-morning, coffee-brewing, someone’s-still-asleep silence. I mean the other one. The loaded silence. The one where you’re both technically in the same room, but emotionally operating on separate Wi-Fi networks. You’re “fine.” They’re “fine.” The silence is doing laps…
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