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“Those are it. She likes those.” He said it quite definitively. She squinted at him behind the Versace shades. “But she’ll need a few more minutes to admit it [...]

“Run towards the pain. Own it and run through it like a freak.” That’s what she said when I asked her how she was feeling about the situation, how she was coping. [...]

I want your thoughts on this one.  Please. After a three hour flight and a day at the office, I was sitting at the hotel bar with a friend, a drink and a plate of nachos.  Nachos without cheese, [...]

Steve at Dunkin Donuts smiled at me.  It wasn’t that pleasant, “Happy Sunday, enjoy your run!” kind of neighborly smile. It was that little bit toothy, little bit creepy, [...]

 Well, what did you expect? And now, you’re disappointed. Again. Unmet expectations are the silent relationship killer. You know you have them.  We all do.  We all assume that our partner should [...]

“No one has ever broken your heart.  They broke your expectations.”   When I came across this quote about heartbreak in an ad for Kyle Cease’s new book, immediately, I loved it. [...]

The last three days were brutal.  Any single thing on it’s own was no code red crisis, but the culmination of events left me exhausted and emotionally unable to engage. It started with work [...]

“It looks like Shrek.” He says this with the snarky, disapproving expression common to the teenage male.  And then he adds the final judgement: he shrugs, “Whatever.” I am [...]

Men are wired to connect through sex. And then they are able to delve into emotional intimacy. Women are wired to connect through emotional and mental interactions. And then open themselves up to [...]

December 7, 1941. She was enjoying breakfast with her mother in the courtyard of the Moana Surfrider hotel on Oahu. Over coffee and fruit – and a vain attempt to convince her mother to try [...]