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 …
1. Music is sublime and causes great emotions that lift us higher. Turn on any song and feel what it makes you feel. Whether it’s sad, happy or somewhere in the middle, you often discover something about yourself or your life in the midst of it. The amazing thing about music is that our emotions …
Heartbreak is a hard thing, but it’s not a forever thing, and you will experience a disproportionate amount of it when you’re young. While you’re moving from relationship to relationship, working on finding the person with whom you’ll stay long-term, you’ll have to cope with not just one but often a string of losses and …
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 …
Like women, men don’t always say exactly what they’re feeling precisely when they feel it. But guys don’t have to say much to show you what they’re thinking. That’s because unconscious body language signals can be extremely telling, says Patti Wood, a body language expert with more than 30 years of experience and author of Success …
I am thankful to you because you made me be my truest self, and that is better than anything. You no longer can hurt me. I started to believe in me again and on that, I succeeded just by walking away from the illusion of seeing you one more time. Even when I might have …
Is your new man sending you some weird signals? Do you feel confused about the relationship after spending a day or night with him? Your new boyfriend may be secretly insecure and that can lead to all sorts of relationship problems if you aren’t prepared for what is in store. Insecure men are broken. Something …
I should erase your name from my phone. I should delete your photographs. I should throw out everything that reminds me of you as a way to find closure and move on with my life. I should stop torturing myself with the thought of you. I should stop scrolling through my phone whenever the loneliness …