friendship
C.S Lewis got it right: friendship is born when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"
When Real Love Feels Calm, Not Chaotic
True love does not experience like perennial confusion, fear, emotional ups and downs. Rather, it has an effect of tranquillization of the heart and calmness of the mind. Love is grounding when you are with a person that cares about you. You do not suspect their motives or fear spontaneous changes of behavior. Rather, you are being embraced, empathized and protected.
By Olivia Smith11 months ago in Humans
When You Start Feeling Prioritized in Love
It happens that in a good relationship, there comes a time when you feel heard, appreciated, and given the first priority. It is not about sweeping moves--it is about everyday moves that demonstrate that you are important. Being given precedence in love is as though a warmth of the heart, a consistent assurance, and a sincere concern. It changes the way you feel the relationship and even your own perception. Love suddenly becomes something to rely on.
By Olivia Smith11 months ago in Humans
How to Rebuild Closeness After Growing Apart
It does not happen that one grows apart overnight. It starts in silence-- reduced talking, reduced time together, increased emotional separation. Then you find yourself becoming aware of the intimacy that you had been banking on disappearing. This is usually experienced in long-term relationships particularly when life gets hectic or when stress accumulates. Emotional distance does not necessarily need to be forever. Couples may come back to their senses and build the intimacy they once shared intentionally.
By Olivia Smith11 months ago in Humans
The Weight of Reality: The Trade-Off Illusion
1. Every Solution Costs Something There is no such thing as a perfect solution. Every answer creates a new question, and every gain requires a loss. The idea that we can have everything without giving something up is one of the greatest lies of modern culture. Real progress demands trade-offs. Something must be sacrificed for something else to exist.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast11 months ago in Humans
How Respect Becomes the Anchor of Real Love
Love might start with excitement and attraction, but respect is what makes it to develop. By treating one another with the respect they deserve, values and feelings, the relationship between two people is stable and safe. Nobility is what enables love to grow out of infatuation. In its absence, even healthy relationships ultimately end up being sour. Respect builds a platform that can resist conflicts, emotional transformations, and life issues.
By Stella Johnson Love11 months ago in Humans
Why Understanding Each Other Prevents Most Fights
Major issues do not cause most of the relationship conflicts, misunderstanding causes it. As the partners make assumptions rather than inquisitions, tension is bound to increase. However, as clarity takes the place of confusion when the essence of communication is made through understanding. You start to understand the intentions of your partner rather than rush to negative conclusions. It is a change that minimizes unproductive disagreements and creates emotional safety.
By Stella Johnson Love11 months ago in Humans
The Subtle Ways Love Makes You Grow
Love does not always change you in some great melodramatic situations. More often, it is the mundane, but daily things that creep upon the individual you are. Patience and understanding when you are loved, you start to look at yourself in a new light. You soften your imperfections and believe in your excellences. Love is a protective nature that makes growth to be natural and not forced.
By Stella Johnson Love11 months ago in Humans
When You Finally Experience a Love That Feels Safe
When a person has a safe love the first time it can be life changing. Safe love is a relief into a stable cool world after previous heartbreaks or emotional turbulence. You are no longer worried that you will be left alone or misinterpreted. Rather, you are stable in a relationship that is peaceful and not violent. This transformation helps you to unwind into love without any fear.
By Kellee Bernier11 months ago in Humans
Not Every Work Friend Is Meant To Be A Forever Friend
Relationships fade. Some slowly, some abruptly, and some in ways that leave you questioning how you ever let the wrong people so close. I have always been a positive person who builds deep connections quickly. Over the years, through school and a decade of shifting workplaces, I’ve met people who felt like lifelong friends. Working with someone every day can blur into something that feels rooted, meaningful, and hard to let go of.
By MB | Stories & More11 months ago in Humans
The Quiet Disappearances We Don’t Talk About
We spend most of our lives preparing for the big moments, the celebrations, the milestones, the loud chapters we expect to remember forever. But no one prepares you for the quiet disappearances. The moments that slip out of your hands so silently that you only notice they’re gone when something small reminds you.
By SoftlyWished11 months ago in Humans
Universal Design Saves Lives. Content Warning.
Content Warning: Medical Assistance in Dying A month ago, on November 2nd, the Montreal mayoral race was concluded with as a winner Soraya Martinez Ferada. A key issue the main four parties discussed at length during their campaign was related to the housing crisis which has for many Quebecers gotten worse over the last few years. Whether that be on the news or at the Quebec Assembly, housing is discussed quite a lot, however, rarely do those conversations include the specific preoccupations of disabled renters.
By Allie Pauld11 months ago in Humans
The Racism You’re Not Supposed to Talk About:
For a community that prides itself on rainbows, love, and “chosen family,” the gay world has a very real, very ugly secret: racism is baked into its culture more deeply than most are willing to admit. People love to chant “love is love” at Pride, but scroll through Grindr for five minutes, walk into a club in a major gay city, or look at who gets put on magazine covers, and you’ll see how conditional that love actually is.
By Edwin Betancourt Jr.11 months ago in Humans
