I like to imagine that this person is truly invested in thinking through the ways humans and technology interact. That they’ve read Audre Lorde, believe a relationship is sharing deeply any pursuit with another person, and have purposefully created a boundary between their Instagram persona and thei…
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Quotes tagged ‘Relationships’
There is no shortage of media counselling us to be mindful in love, to acknowledge our partners’ needs, and to compromise when necessary. And there’s an equal and opposite lack of such material when it comes to friendship.
Sexualizing self-hatred is the hallmark of any relationship.
Should we be open to changing for someone? Or does that in turn negate a deeper, truer part of ourselves, like my ego has lead me to believe?
Perhaps the question, then, isn’t whether change in love is good or bad, but how to tell the difference between identity loss and identity gains. Self-sacrifice and healthy compromise. Maintaining personal integrity versus closing yourself off.
every day my boyfriend has a grapefruit for breakfast and texts me a rating of it out of 10 and i really regret not keeping a spreadsheet
God’s path to your blessing may not always make sense.
Sometimes it’s the right guy, but the wrong time. God may need you and Him to go through a process first before He can bring you two into a successful relationship together.
Unless you have a really good reason to suggest your friend is dating the wrong person, you probably shouldn’t. Other people’s relationships are none of your business, and you may have an entirely different concept of what’s “right” for someone than they do.
Though the concept of virginity is arguably over-precious, difficult to define and socially constructed to fit heteronormative religious and commercial directives that come with a host of problems, losing it can still be a jumping off point into the abyss of what you desire.
The vulnerability that open relationships require, that from the outside seems so scary, is actually an asset in so many of these relationships.
What does it mean to grieve someone who is alive, but who walks, talks, thinks, acts and looks different from before?
You were a shot in the dark. You scattered like ashes across every song that I write.
They say two wrongs don't make a right but I am feeling much better knowing that he's dead.
In letting others off the hook, I have let myself off the hook, too.
Whenever I get a holiday text, the reason of the season moves me to write back, usually with a similarly canned festive greeting. (“Happy holidays to u too!!”) Ignoring an ex’s text can be easy enough during the rest of the year, but something about the holidays changes that.
You think you wanna be alone? Just wait until you're crying on the shower floor. It hits you in the chest, about every day you're done, 'cause once you let it go, you better know it's gone.
I can't make you love me if you don't.
What if this is all the love I ever know? I'd say the words that were so hard to say, 'don't go.'
Yeah, baby, trust me, this could get ugly, but that means it's fucking good, real fucking good.