If you’re in a good relationship, celebrate that today. Don’t patronize your single friends. Don’t act like you forgot the day. Even a bog standard date on Valentine’s Day ain’t a horror show.
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Tag: Relationships
On Wants and Wanteds
I want to get to know you… slowly, so slowly, always searching, never caring about the destination
I wanted to hold your hand and feel you squeeze mine back
Virtual Energy Vampirism in a Pandemic… or Dude, STFU
To what degree have the stresses & traumas inflicted by the pandemic colored our social interactions (esp. virtual ones). How intrusive are even socially-distanced activities and what dis-service can they do to those whose company is so highly priz’d in the first place?
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I am (not)
I am. I am not…
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On The Path of Being a Suitable Boy
On the life expectations placed on us and by us. What do you do when the only path you’ve ever thought about never seems to materialize.
Continue readingLetting Go of Ourselves to Gain Something of Someone Else
On the concept of letting go, sacrificing a smidge of control in one’s life in the pursuance of love, of relationships etc…
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Chemistry, Conversation and the Theatre of Awkward
Wouldn’t it be nice just to have someone to talk to…. Maybe over a pot of gumbo on a lazy Sunday evening. But I am still picky?
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A Thought on Putting Oneself Out There
Thoughts on the nature and development of friendship and relationships and the risks we take or don’t have to take.
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Energy Vampirism & the Cultivation of New Adult Relationships
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about friendships and relationships and how we grow and nurture new entrants into our lives as we age.
Continue readingThe Gift of Forgiveness
One of Rod Dreher’s commenters, Cecilia, on the subject of forgiveness and revenge: As to why wronged people do not seek vengeance – another
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