modern love
*modern dating
modern love
Of course, part of the problem is that we usually only know we were falling in love after it’s happened. Retrospect wears the right amount of cologne and pours you a third glass of wine you sip by candlelight because Retrospect is seductive like that.
It could take days or weeks or months before Retrospect waves you over before punching you in the
... See moreI long for a conversation partner who travels through an abundance of interesting material at breakneck speed, shouting over their shoulder at me, “Keep up!” Someone who assumes I am up for the challenge, someone who assumes the best of me.
Christina Joyce Hauser • The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
A relationship, like a movie or book, doesn’t fail when it comes to an end.
a relationship that ended, not failed | Derek Sivers
When you love someone, I think the question that you ask is: can I help them be okay? Can I make their life better without ruining my own? What can I do to be there? To me, the heart of love is the acknowledgement that we have little control over how other people live and yet our fate is bound up with theirs. S is not the only person I feel that wa... See more
no exit
I’ve felt the same pressures with sex. A brief foray onto the app FEELD made me feel like vanilla ice cream. Is there a box to tick for wanting to be touched nicely, never hurt and nothing extreme or surprising? The just nice sex box please. I found it hard to relate to people’s boxes because I always thought, but isn’t it about what is between us?... See more
I just like fish fingers and normal sex
Dating advice from a friend: You don’t want someone who is fun on a night out. You want someone who is fun doing laundry.
My catchphrase on this topic is “Ease can be exciting.” I think that with the right person, you can get both the butterflies and the calm, even though we’re told they can’t coexist. That, to me, is magic: the presence of both thrill and stillness. Sometimes you have to do some math to get there.
If this is a dream I would want to dream it all over again. I would want to go back to sleep right away. I wouldn’t believe real life could be any better than this is. I would say has this really been a dream? Because I wouldn’t believe I’d have the presence of mind to conjure all these conversations with my friends that go places that I don’t expe
... See moreWhen you can’t get her name out of your mind, is it always capitalized, or pronounced with a sigh?