modern love
*modern dating
modern love
I 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
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
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A relationship, like a movie or book, doesn’t fail when it comes to an end.
a relationship that ended, not failed | Derek Sivers
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
The type of person I’m assuming we’re looking for here is 1) someone that you will find fascinating to talk to after you’ve talked for 20,000 hours, 2) you feel comfortable with them talking through the hardest and most painful decisions you will face in your life, and 3) the conversation is wildly generative for both of you, in that it brings you ... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
And now I could sort of gesture at what I liked—kind people who are intellectually voracious and think it is cute that I obsess so hard about ideas that I fail all status games.
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
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
Ava • no exit
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.