True friendship knows no bounds…and has no boundaries. 1. Group texts are a way of life. 2. Essentially, if you leave that thing alone for a few hours you come back to fifty messages. 3. Late night phone calls must be answered. 4. Countdowns to the next time you will be seeing each other …
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Love is terrifying, and terror is love. How exceptional is falling in love? How breathtakingly incredible. How painful and enchanted it is to have your protected vessel opened. It presents so many chances for overwhelming pain, and also for captivating joy. It’s a double-edged sword that can release your innermost desires and also your deepest …
Wait, did she just say men? Yes, I did. It honestly shouldn’t be so groundbreaking to consider that both genders of one human race encounter similar internal conflicts. I’m a women’s writer, and one of the key issues I see within the field is that some feel separating the two genders is what leads to …
I mean, yeah, thanks for loving me and everything, but if we are being real here… 1. Thank you for continuing to pretend Chipotle is healthy. 2. Thank you for letting me choose to post the photo of us that is very clearly the one that’s better of me. 3. Thank you for every …
“Where in the heck is the cap to this thing?!” These were the words I cried out to the desolate gas station parking lot, as I stood in a suit and heels, holding a massive jug of windshield wiper fluid with snow piling on top of my head. I had just run out of wiper …
Hello my darlings. Thinking about motherhood sends so many emotions through me, like electric, terrifying joy. It shakes every part of my soul. I’ve been writing about love since I first started to journal in elementary school, but meeting each of you will mean finding the single most astounding and remarkable love I’ll ever encounter. …
Recently, someone questioned my affinity for red wine. My answer, as most of my answers, was probably not at all what they expected. “We bonded.” I said laughing, and taking a sip from the glass that had inspired such a question. “Well, I used to hate it. I was going through a difficult time when …
Look at you, you’re starting to look like a grown-up or something. 1. You don’t feel the need to gossip anymore. 2. Jealously is futile and starts to fade away as a controlling force of your mind. 3. You handle conflict directly, maturely, and respectively. 4. You know how to apologize and admit fault. 5. …
“Those sure are a lot of rings,” the Subway employee said warmly, gesturing to the ring-covered fingers frantically rooting through my wallet in search of my debit card. I smiled back at him. “Any reason why you wear so many?” I extended my fingers and looked down at my hands for a moment before responding …