Love Bombing & Supernormal Stimulus, Redux: Finding the Button Is Only Half of It
I wanted to write to you about your article “The Supernormal Stimulus.” In it, you talk about an approach to optimizing in relationships where you
I wanted to write to you about your article “The Supernormal Stimulus.” In it, you talk about an approach to optimizing in relationships where you
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My husband and I have started practicing polyamory for a little over four months now. It has come very naturally to me, but not my
I’ve learned an awful lot from watching people who dismiss experiences unless they’re the one having them. If you keep your eyes open, you’ll see it eventually — people who talk bitterly about one side of an issue, putting others down who feel differently, until life comes and smacks them off their high horse. And they find themselves on the other side, the one that they had always dismissed.
I’ve gotten asked enough times how I started out blogging for a wide audience. I wish I had a better origin story. That I’d gotten
There’s this way that you pull me to you when we’re both half-asleep that tells me you’re something different with me in your life. That
According to most surveys on the subject (e.g., Woolley et. al., 2011; Prentice et. al, 1978, etc.), about 85% of 5-year-old children believe that Santa Claus
I learned something in the coat room in elementary school. If they can, people will touch your body without permission. Especially if it’s dark. And
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