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On Healthy Relationships: Maybe Love *Should* Be Conditional
Read more: On Healthy Relationships: Maybe Love *Should* Be ConditionalWhen I was younger, the most romantic thought in my head was that someone could love me unconditionally, in spite of all my flaws and faults and myriad poor life choices–so I made that my goal in my endeavors. To be able to love people (friends, family, romantic partners) without conditions. That road? The road…
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Love, Hiding in Plain Sight
Read more: Love, Hiding in Plain SightOscar Wilde claimed that there are but two tragedies in this life: 1. not getting what you want, and 2. actually getting it. Then, I suppose, there are the two most incredible joys: the unexpected treasures and experiences that simply drop into your lap one day… and the ones you didn’t know you had waiting…
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Live Happily Ever After: Become A Love Language Polyglot
Read more: Live Happily Ever After: Become A Love Language PolyglotPolyglot. Adjective. Definition: Knowing or using several languages. Why not become a polyglot in all the love languages? A few days back, I was chatting online with a good friend of mine. She was super excited that her boyfriend had thoughtfully picked up something she’d been eyeing for months–but she seemed to almost feel guilty for appreciating the…
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What “Marriage Takes Work” Actually Means
Read more: What “Marriage Takes Work” Actually MeansIt’s pretty obvious that bad things will absolutely happen over the course of a long relationship: illness, death, random acts of a furious and vengeful God/dess. The usual. These, predictably, add stress to any relationship, but if your relationship is solid, you will weather every storm that the universe and/or your asshole family will throw…
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Joie De Vivre
Read more: Joie De VivreIt feels… suspicious… to be this consistently, blazingly happy. I have done nothing to earn it. I certainly don’t deserve it. It feels as if I caught happiness like an illness, that it should only be mine for a little while, a jubilant delirium as transient as a butterfly. I keep expecting its flight, a…
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Cheers to 2018: Year of the Dog and Love
Read more: Cheers to 2018: Year of the Dog and LoveOh, 2018: Words can do you no justice, and yet still I try! What started as an astoundingly dismal, uncertain year quickly blossomed into the greatest love story (so beautiful that I frequently blink back the pinprick of happy tears) that I have ever known. And I’ve read a lot of trashy romance novels. I started 2018…
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