Never lose yourself while trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.— Unknown Some days you wonder how much is too much. How much more heartache can one person handle before you fall to pieces. At what point do you give up and say enough is enough? In the past no matter how much I believed in love or how hard I tried it always seemed to fall apart. I didn’t [...]
"Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma." - Mahavira Have you ever heard of attachment styles? If not, I’m going to give you a brief summary of what they are and how they affect every relationship you've had and [...]
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get." - Confucius Love is beautiful. Love is life changing. Love is an emotional high. Love is one of the most amazing experiences a person can ever have. Love brings new awareness and change and butterflies and sex. At the same [...]
“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”― Virginia Woolf Do you remember all those times your friends told you, "you deserve better" or "you are the best thing that ever happened to him" or "he doesn't deserve you"? Did you nod your head and say, "yes, I know." Did you say "yes, I know", but not believe it? Did you think it intellectually, but not truly feel the brunt of what that means? I [...]
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama Six. That’s how many relationships it took for me to change. You might be wondering what the hell I was doing in each of those if I wasn’t changing after each one. If you think I was avoiding change you would be [...]
"My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession." - Joaquin Phoenix The DSM-V (Diagnostic Statistical Manual), is what psychiatrists and psychologists use to define psychiatric disorders and illnesses. It is like the bible of psychiatry. Just a little, FYI- sociopaths are not considered to fall under any of the personality disorders listed in the manual, and is therefore not specifically diagnosable. However, most [...]
“My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.”— Pablo Neruda The Magical Way I lied. There is no magical way to get over a broken heart. I bet you've had your heart broken before - and yet, here you are, still alive (even if barely) trying to figure out how to move forward. What Everyone Says You Should Do So-called experts will give you all kinds [...]
“Love is blind to blemishes and fault." - Irish Proverb Excuses, Excuses Have you ever thought that you could love someone enough to make everything work? Have you been in a relationship where you knew you weren’t really happy but you kept saying, “But, I love him”? If so, I know how you feel. It has happened to me many times. Actually, many, many, many times. More times than I care to admit. Every one [...]
