Relationships

Alex Wittenberg and

Wanting to be enough for someone else is self-abandonment.

Joe Hudson • Tweet

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Nneka Julia • Words I Needed Last Week 2/6

pphoebe

life’s lines of closeness. whew! this made me emotional.

My people are the whitepill people

The ones who try to find ways to support instead of tearing down

The ones who never make fun of others for the way they look or for their struggles

The ones who are kind to others (though sometimes they could be kinder to themselves)

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“Cuando uno admite sus miedos y que la vida no es eterna, la confianza puede renacer de esta vulnerabilidad”, dijo Dufourmantelle.“Es un riesgo estar vivo, pocos seres lo están”.

Rosario

alex

The Longest Relationships of Our Lives

Angela Chen theatlantic.com

LLaura Pike Seeley

In other words, siblings are forced together, and then suddenly they’re not. The independence of adulthood—when proximity is no longer required and the obligations lessen—creates opportunities for siblings to build, repair, or discard the relationships of their youth, to stay stuck in or break free of the roles they played as children.

social theory: the best way to make new friends is to invite people to do an activity that will occupy enough of their brain capacity such that their defenses will be down and they’ll be a more open version of themselves

anu x.com

alex

what is there when there is nothing

Winnie Lim winnielim.org

sari

There’s no love without vulnerability. There’s no life without fear . And you will no doubt derail romance if you are too risk-averse.

freyaindia.co.uk • Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance - By Freya India - GIRLS

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