I didn’t know what to call it before. I just knew I had this recurring pattern—where I’d slowly, methodically, and almost politely start backing out of whatever messy half-thing I’d gotten myself into. Now, thanks to workplace jargon leaking into real life, I’ve found the term: quiet quitting. And I’ve been doing it in situationships for years. You know the…
Betrayal cuts deeper than most emotional wounds, not because the act itself is always dramatic, but because it strikes at something sacred—trust. When someone you leaned on, believed in, or loved turns around and shatters that connection, it’s not just the relationship that breaks. It’s your sense of safety, stability, and self. You may feel foolish for not seeing it…
There’s something suspiciously enchanting about someone who isn’t around. When they’re not texting back, not showing up, or not in the room, they become saints, poets, and misunderstood geniuses in our minds. We replay their half-smiles like sacred relics. We assign meaning to silences. We say, “They must be thinking about me too.” (They’re not. They’re probably thinking about pizza.…
Sometimes, love meets us in a moment when we are not ready to receive it fully. Or we are, and they are not. The reasons vary. Timing. Distance. Circumstances neither of you could change. Still, it leaves you with the ache of unfinished conversation and the weight of unspoken goodbyes. It’s a strange thing—to become strangers with someone who knows…
You don’t always lose someone in a dramatic, cinematic way. Sometimes, you just stop speaking. You drift. The messages grow shorter. The silence grows louder. And before you know it, you are two people carrying pieces of each other’s truth—no longer in each other’s lives, but never entirely out of them. There are people we do not speak of, not…
There’s something deeply unsettling about someone who knows your truths. Not the curated, social-media-friendly truths, but the raw ones—the ones you whisper into the dark and hope no one hears. When that person becomes a stranger, it feels like walking around with your soul slightly ajar. The silence between ex-lovers isn’t empty. It’s loud. It’s filled with all the conversations…
Let’s start with a hard truth: love, no matter how real, doesn’t always mean forever. Sometimes it means for now, and occasionally, it means until one of us figures out how to function like a semi-stable adult. The idea that “if the love is real, we’ll see each other again” sounds romantic, but it can also be a very convenient…
You know before they say anything. You pretend you don’t. You double down on the jokes. You casually mention your latest dating disaster like a human smoke bomb. But the truth hangs in the air like forgotten laundry—obvious, slightly uncomfortable, and starting to smell like tension. There’s a certain kind of panic that hits when your best friend looks at…
Falling for your BFF is not all gloom and doom. Here’s a post about BFFs who maybe fall in love—with all the awkwardness, hope, and emotional potholes that come with it: There comes a time in every emotionally chaotic person’s life when they look at their best friend and think, “Wait… do I love you? Or did you just lend…