Category: Blogs

“Love isn’t the butterflies. It’s the decision to keep showing up after the butterflies have started paying rent elsewhere.” Nobody tells you this at the beginning, when everything is new and shiny and you’re both pretending you don’t have annoying habits. But relationships don’t survive on chemistry alone. They survive on effort. On repair. On…

“Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.” — Diane Ackerman There is a particular kind of intimacy that doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t knock. It doesn’t clear its throat politely. It just… happens. Or it doesn’t. And somehow our bodies clock it immediately, while our minds are still busy pretending everything’s fine. Touch in…

“Most human problems come from expectations.” — Esther Perel We don’t enter relationships expecting perfection. We enter them expecting progress. At the beginning, honesty is cautious. We reveal ourselves in instalments. The safe bits first. The likeable bits. The parts that won’t scare anyone off before dessert arrives. And that’s normal. No one sits across…