Weddings often feel harmless this way. Nothing they ask for seems unreasonable when it’s taken on its own: a hairstyle, a color…
It rarely begins as a decision. More often, it shows up as a suggestion. A passing comment about color palettes. Something about…
There’s a moment at weddings like this that tends to catch people off guard. You’re dressed for the occasion, you show up…
Sometimes it shows up after the wedding is already over, when you’re back in your own space, replaying the day, trying to…
Emotional feedback doesn’t disappear all at once. It thins quietly, while everything else stays in place. You’re still talking. Responses still come.…
It’s easy to assume that missing someone means you want them back. Sometimes that’s true. Other times, what keeps surfacing isn’t the…
Memory has a way of keeping the version of ourselves we became in a relationship, even as the details of the relationship…
Most conversations about closure assume a certain shape. Something happens, something breaks, something ends, and from there, the work is supposed to…
People love the phrase “just move on.” It sounds clean, efficient, and responsible. The problem is that it assumes there’s something concrete…
The phrase “the one who got away” sounds romantic, but psychologically, it’s rarely about romance alone. What stays is an unfinished narrative…
Emotional feedback doesn’t disappear all at once. It thins quietly, while everything else keeps moving.…
In many marriages, difficulty doesn’t show up through conflict. It takes shape as uneven weight,…
Most people don’t decide to become the steady one in a marriage. It happens gradually,…
When people think about marriage difficulties, they usually imagine a clear moment where something gives…
No one talks much about marriage difficulties until they’re already inside them. It isn’t the…
