Without a warning, the thought of him enters your brain and stays there day and night. Everywhere you look, you see his name printed in capital letters. You try to remember the last time you felt this dizzy and conflicted and torn. You close your eyes and embrace the silence around you, hoping to understand …
You are avoiding me as if I never existed to you, as if everything was my fault, and not yours. I see you every day. I wish I could automatically switch off what I feel, and instantly stop loving you, but it doesn’t work that way. I know I’m better off without you, and my …
I want a best friend. I want someone to laugh with. I want someone to go on adventures with. I don’t want a storybook romance. I don’t want candlelight dinners or walks on the beach. I don’t want roses and wine. I want to go to the batting cages. Let’s race go carts. Play putt putt golf. Let’s …
Maybe they were single throughout all of high school and aren’t used to being someone’s girlfriend. Maybe they have been on a few dates since their ex left them, but nothing has ever turned serious. Maybe they decided to take a break from dating for their own good or maybe they ended up being alone despite …
Nurses are a special breed of people who embody the rare combination of tough and loving. They know how to handle belligerent patients, gross messes, and still comfort people when they need it. And they’re smart. They’re the kind of person who is a true partner in a relationship and keeps everything moving forward in both of your lives. Nurses are managers, …
Wait for it. Wait for the one who understands your anxieties. Wait for the one who knows when they’re clogging your mind. Wait for the one who knows how to pull you out of that. Wait for the one who looks at you and only you when you’re talking. Wait for the one who makes …
Someone who will cover you in a blanket when you finally get to lay down at the end of a long day, who will whisper for you to close your eyes while they play with your hair. Someone who kisses your forehead once they think you’ve fallen asleep. But also someone who will use you …
I’m sitting on a bench in Battery Park at the very bottom of Manhattan, right by the water. I’ve got a book open on my lap, On Writing by Stephen King, and a lukewarm coffee sitting to my right. This is my favorite part of New York City. It’s peaceful. Instead of smelling like concrete soaked in urine and …
Stop making a fool out of yourself. Stop forcing something that isn’t there. Stop trying to make something out of nothing. He doesn’t love you. And the fact that you’re trying so hard to convince yourself otherwise is proof that he doesn’t love you. Because if a man were truly in love with you, you …
We texted back and forth until my phone battery came close to dying. We flirted with each other until all of our friends were asking why the hell we weren’t official yet. We spent so much time together that you became one of my closest confidants, one of the people who I would have missed …