“The truth is, partnership is tenuous, and the current prevailing model was constructed only after thousands of years of different examples, most completely unrelated to a modern understanding of Western marriage, and which for a long time excluded interracial and queer couples. My in-laws, together…”Tagged: Relationships
“The absolute only way to be in full control of your money is to ask all of the questions, no matter how small or seemingly stupid. This isn’t uncouth — it’s shrewd and resourceful. If people take offense to your questions, a simple 'Sorry about that, I’m just trying to become more financially…”Tagged: Money
“I take comfort in the past. I draw my memories around me like a warm blanket. But I also rehash and replay, question decisions, can’t get over anything, rebel against the passage of time.”Tagged: Memories, Nostalgia
“The unconscious, that tricky beast, is difficult to access, and dreams (said Jung) give us some access to that underground part of ourselves.”Tagged: Dreams, What Do Dreams Mean, Dream Meanings, Science, Psychology
“Metaphorically, the unconscious is like one of our inner organs, your slippery liver or a beet-purple kidney: it’s there, you know it exists because, well, you’re alive, but you can’t see it directly.”Tagged: Dreams, Subconscious
“Learning to be alone is one of the hardest and the best things I’ve ever done for myself.”Tagged: Isolation, Being Alone, Friendships
“As difficult as it might be to imagine investing when you are struggling with debt or have a salary that doesn’t stretch far, it is the single best thing you can do to plan for your future.”Tagged: Financial Advice, Investing
“Over the past few years I’ve done things I would never have had the gumption to do when I was younger, like take a Beyoncé dance class, or use the word “gumption” in an article that other, much-cooler individuals will read. But there’s true beauty in realizing no one is watching to see if you’ll…”Tagged: Failure, Humiliation, Growing Up
“Taking food out of the Tupperware before heating it up. Did you know you were supposed to do this? I did, but also, I’m hungry.”Tagged: LOL, Growing Up, Adulting, Weird
“What I’m talking about when I talk about One Direction is the experience of joy, the kind of joy you can only get from a thing outside you and independent of you, the kind of joy that threatens to dismantle all the safeguards you’ve erected against vulnerability.”Tagged: crushes, chemistry, Love, sweet