What My Dad Taught Me About Love
NOV. 21, 2012 By MILA JARONIEC

Rather, he taught me what he knew about love by accidental example.

First of all, that it has to drive you. It has to be your reason to get out of bed in the morning and stay up all night, your reason to keep going anywhere and keep doing anything at all. You have to feel genuine ( Read more... )

I admit, I take in every word from Steve Corona's journal like how I do Thought Catalog. They all seem to make sense somehow, and I can relate to most, if not all his entries. But yes, I totally agree with him on this. I've got a whole stack of these 'ideas' sitting pretty in a note app, writing ideas in my Werdsmith and most of them don't come to ( Read more... )

Loving You Left Me Bankrupt

OCT. 23, 2012

By VICTORIA YOUNG
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The idea of being “part of a pair” is what bothers me the most. Easily my greatest fear in relationships is losing sight of who I am as an individual and becoming an indistinguishable part of a unit, which might in part be because I used to let it happen so much. I used to believe in this all-consuming, love-conquers-all doctrine of relationships ( Read more... )

4. The game changer

The game changer is at the same time the most constructive and destructive person with whom you’ve ever had a relationship. You thought you knew yourself before you met the game changer. You thought you were a good person, that you’d eliminated your negative behavioral tendencies, and that you were all grown up and adult. But ( Read more... )

Stop Feeling Sad (For No Reason)

DEC. 12, 2011

By RYAN O'CONNELL
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"And suddenly, it’s all over. You start thinking about your own life again, your present problems and the fact that you need to buy Parmesan if you want to actually enjoy that spaghetti you plan on eating. The memories evaporate. Who you were and that particular stage of your life recedes back into the depths of you, laid to rest in a place with no ( Read more... )