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A publication dedicated to sharing personal stories and advice for all things related to love & relationships. We welcome writers of all skill levels, so don’t be shy.
Our standards conform with that of Medium’s Distribution Guidelines. In short, we accept pieces that are properly cited, formatted, and title-cased.
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No one is born confident, and certainly, no one is a hundred percent confident all the time.
Confident people are just good at copying other confident people. Therefore, to be confident, you have to know how to act like one. …
Quitters never win and winners never quit.
That’s the saying you might’ve heard before. Well, I’d like to challenge that. I understand the importance of teaching people, especially children, the lesson of persistence and perseverance, but we’re not children anymore.
We’re adults learning to live life with intention and purpose.
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There’s no rulebook when it comes to grief.
You’ll either find yourself crying unfathomably or you’ll feel so guilty because you haven’t cried enough. Most of the time though, you’re just lost because you don’t know how life will go on without them.
Last year, my partner lost his stepfather…
Contrary to popular belief, smart people do the stupidest things.
For example, I was always one of the smartest kids in my class. I graduated valedictorian, was student body president during my senior year, and chief editor of the student paper. I crushed extracurriculars after extracurriculars. A decade after my…
Taylor Swift does more than write about relationships and breakups.
She also serves some great life advice to those who care enough to listen. From turning 15 to moving out, there’s certainly a T-swift song to mark every occasion. One of the most important takeaways from all of her songs…
It was rainbows and butterflies until it wasn’t.
After four years, my friend Megan got dumped by her boyfriend through a text message (she’s not “the one,” apparently), and she didn't know how to pick up the pieces and move on. In an unforgettable night of booze and partying, she…
My life has been one big hate-fest of my body.
I don’t know when or how it developed, but I have been comparing my body to others for as long as I can remember. I was never happy, and never good enough. …
Does this sound familiar to you?
You worked out three to five days a week, ate a clean and healthy diet, met all the deadlines in your work, slept well, and woke up early— pumped to take on any challenge thrown at you during the day. But then, in a…
