The 8 Kinds of Love in the Triangular Model of Love
Many of the conversations we have around love can be very confusing. Part of this stems from the fact that what we call “love” and… Read More »The 8 Kinds of Love in the Triangular Model of Love
Many of the conversations we have around love can be very confusing. Part of this stems from the fact that what we call “love” and… Read More »The 8 Kinds of Love in the Triangular Model of Love
Growing up, I’d often ask the people around me what love was. This started young, practically when I first heard the word. “Love?” some would… Read More »I Probably Don’t Know What Love Is, But I May Have Felt It the Other Day
“You know, Page,” he says, “it seems like every time I turn around, I bump into someone who has just discovered the Love Languages framework,… Read More »When You Have the Right Love Language But Are Speaking at the Wrong Volume
It’s Saturday. We’re both working in the living room on our laptops. Delighted as always to be workaholics. His Spotify mix is playing in the… Read More »I Realize I’m Loved at the Strangest Times, from the Smallest Things
I recently published an article called “When I’m Asking Why You Love Me, I’m Really Asking What Love Is to You.” I was pleasantly surprised… Read More »Feeling Loved and Being Loved Are Different
Today was the first day in a while that I did all my chores. And I’m ecstatic.
Like most well-adjusted people our age, my partner hates talking on the phone. Do I love talking on the phone? No, not really. But it doesn’t bother me. I don’t mind it.
Maybe one day words of self-affirmation won’t feel so weird to me. But until then, I have self-affirming acts as something I can do, a way that I can show myself self-compassion using something other than words.
I’ve found that while my first impressions of people I’m dating isn’t always an accurate one, I inevitably am pretty good at heeding positive or negative signs when they inevitably show up.
It may be cliched, seeing as I’m a writer, but there’s no quicker way to my heart than saying the right words. Seriously. If you… Read More »What Happened When I Dated Other Folks Who Were Big on Words of Affirmation