When I read this poem for the first time, I immediately thought of my own introduction to love stories and happily ever after’s. We all grow up with a set of rules and practices that we learn in order to secure love. The way we love someone else ultimately is the manifestation of how we […]
If someone you care about says “if you love me, then you would (fill in the blank),” you are actually hearing that person’s anxieties. Underlying these anxieties is a need to control the parameters of how love is shown. You want your partner to make you feel better by trying to communicate in the only […]
Do you have friends that take a “dump” on you, dominating phone conversations or dinner conversations talking about their problems all the while showing no interest in you? When you have these interactions, do they leave you feeling “shitty”? Well then, you have been introduced to the toilet function of relationships. Humans are social creatures, […]
