“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…”— Emma Bracy, manrepeller.com
“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.”— Philip Ellis, manrepeller.com
“Sexualizing self-hatred is the hallmark of any relationship.”— Jocelyn Bioh, Nadia Vulvokov, Natasha Lyonne, imdb.com
“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?”— Joanna Kyte, manrepeller.com
“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.”— Joanna Kyte, manrepeller.com
“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”— Jacob Geers, twitter.com
“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.”— Stephan Labossiere, amazon.com
“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.”— Isabelle Kohn, melmagazine.com
“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.”— Isabelle Kohn, melmagazine.com
“The vulnerability that open relationships require, that from the outside seems so scary, is actually an asset in so many of these relationships.”— Nora Taylor, manrepeller.com
“What does it mean to grieve someone who is alive, but who walks, talks, thinks, acts and looks different from before?”— Megan Horst, nytimes.com
“You were a shot in the dark. You scattered like ashes across every song that I write.”— The Wonder Years, open.spotify.com
“They say two wrongs don't make a right but I am feeling much better knowing that he's dead.”— LumpyMode, reddit.com
“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.”— Ella Cerón, thecut.com
“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.”— LANY, open.spotify.com
“What if this is all the love I ever know? I'd say the words that were so hard to say, 'don't go.'”— Snow Patrol, open.spotify.com
“Yeah, baby, trust me, this could get ugly, but that means it's fucking good, real fucking good.”— Jaira Burns, open.spotify.com