Some women swoon over a man who says he will give her “everything.” I swoon over the man who says he will give me “almost everything.” I’m more likely to mock you than kiss you for saying, “You are my goddess for all eternity, your breasts are divine and your legs are the most perfect […]
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I adore WALL-E. It came out ten years ago, a couple of years before I settled into practicing my form of polyamory. Before I knew the word existed. I moved to Korea shortly after the movie was released, and I showed it to my Korean students. Their mastery of English varied quite a bit (though
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ask your partner what they would do if you fell in love with someone else on that first date, lying on the grass in the park
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I saw a piece about someone who said something nice— and another someone responded with unkind words, and this made yet another person upset. “(S)he just said something nice. Can’t you just accept that and move on?” After all, they have a point. Being nice is…nice. I wish society could be nicer. Jimmy Stewart once
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An open letter to the person who says romance is dead,
Carry on, dear soul.
Romance may be dead for you.
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“It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.” — Every Day by David Levithan Falling in love is both simple and mysterious. But it is, when it comes down to it, quite easy to actually…do. Compared with
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I’ll say it here: Trust is overrated. It’s wonderful when it genuinely blossoms from a deep connection. A solidly built trust helps to reassure one that you are making the right decision with any given person with whom that trust is formed. Yet at the end of the day, the only person in whom you
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“Until it feels easy.” My kitten brain sighs, “Until WHAT feels easy?”** It’s nice to say, “Being single is fun and easy!”— and certainly I do think being single is underrated. …but it isn’t always easy. The 24/7, confident, hair whipping woman in the power suit, breastfeeding whilst commanding a conference call via her
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I’ve said before I don’t believe in one twue ways. It’s more accurate to say I believe in many twue ways. The perfect Twue Way for You. I like to bake. One day, you ask me to bake you a cake. Just “a cake.” Oooookay. I mean, I’ll do it quite happily. But forgive me
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I learned many lessons from my family growing up. I learned lessons from my siblings, from my mentors, from my friends. The second most important lesson I received from my mother was this: Happiness is a choice. At the Las Vegas “Life is Beautiful” festival, the year it first began, I painted this sentiment on a
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