Relationships

Frame failure as an AFOG (Another F*cking Opportunity for Growth).

“When someone is in your heart, in your bed, you share intimacy, you want to keep them as friends,” she said. “Sometimes it takes work, especially if you left them.”

Many of us have learned to run from closeness rather than take the risks involved. We run from love or prevent closeness in many ways. We push people away or do hurtful things to them so they won’t want to be close to us. We do ridiculous things in our minds to talk ourselves out of wanting to be close. We find fault with everyone we meet; we

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when he seems to feel much worse about himself these days than he used to before the relationship

For a woman who wants to have biological children with her husband, she has one very real limitation in play, which is the need to pick the right life partner by forty, give or take.