Kirsten Corley
Writer living in Hoboken, NJ with my 2 dogs.
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3 Zodiac Signs That Make The Best Wives/Girlfriends
Once you break through the walls they put up you’ll find a hopeless romantic, but it’s a side that few get to see.
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41 Micro Red Flags To Look Out For That Show Someone Might Be A Narcissist
They force blame on you for things that aren’t actually your fault.
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10 Things That Happen When You Meet A Good Man After A Toxic Relationship
But then you meet a good guy. And when that happens that’s when you realize how negatively this past relationship has affected you.
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Stay Single Until You Meet A Woman Who Does These 70 Things
Appreciates everything you do.
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40 Things Women Find Attractive About Men That Have Nothing to Do With Looks
If you ask questions and not just talk about yourself.
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When Love Doesn’t Choose You Back
The truth is when you come across a love that stops choosing you, that’s not a love that was going to last.
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15 Things Strong Women Never Tolerate In A Relationship
The thing about strong women is they don’t need you.
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If He’s Not Meeting You At Least Halfway, Just Turn Back Around
When it comes to relationships, I always use the image and metaphor of a bridge to describe them. Imagine yourself walking across this bridge and stopping halfway. Healthy relationships are the ones that require only that much effort because the other person meets you there too. But oftentimes, in unhealthy relationships or ‘almost relationships’ or…
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The Unpretty Truth About Life After A Toxic Relationship
People often associate those in toxic relationships with someone who is weak. Someone who doesn’t have enough self-respect to walk away. Someone who is tolerating a lot less than they deserve. But as someone who lived through the turmoil of the ups and downs and endings just to begin again, I look at myself as…
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What Anxiety Really Is, Because It’s More Than ‘Just Worrying’
Anxiety is the restless nights of sleep, as you toss and turn. It’s your brain never being able to shut off. It’s the thoughts you overthink before bedtime and all of your worst fears become a reality in dreams and nightmares. It’s waking up tired even though your day just started. Anxiety is learning how…
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One Day You’ll Just Heal Without Rhyme Or Reason
I still remember exactly how horrible it felt to watch love leave like I was to blame for some ending that blindsided me. Those endings are the hardest ones to get over because to you; everything seems so clear and sure and certain. You’ve invested enough in this person to build this life with them…
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You Won’t Be Everyone’s Cup Of Tea & That’s A Good Thing
I always tried incredibly hard to get people to like me as if I had something to prove. But the more I tried; the more people didn’t. The truth was along with trying to convince other people to like me; I was desperately trying to convince myself the same thing. And it’s true people treat…
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When Love Outlasts The People Who Couldn’t Stay
When we love someone, I don’t think it’s the kind of thing that ever entirely goes away even when that person does. It would be a beautiful thing to see love reciprocated every time. To know the person, we feel something so deeply for will always feel the same way for us. But it isn’t…
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When Anxiety Reveals Itself In The Form Of Self-Doubt
Sometimes my most anxious moments feel like it’s a boxing match of me vs. my mind and when I allow myself to go down the rabbit hole of negative thoughts, what happens is self-doubt. It’s doubting the choices I’ve made in the past and analyzing things I can’t change but thinking deeply about how that…
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And When You Choose Love, May It Feel Like Home
And when you choose to love, I hope it’s the kind of thing that feels like Saturday mornings in baggy clothes making waffles in the kitchen as your song plays in the background. That home kind of love full of comfort and familiarity. And when you choose to love, I hope it’s with someone who…
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When You’re Strong But Human, Read This
It isn’t your job to always be the strong one, and people shouldn’t expect that of you. It’s okay if you have a moment or two where you need to be weak and crawl up in a ball and cry. But I know what it feels like always to have people put stuff on your…
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When Love Doesn’t Choose You Back
Anyone who doesn’t choose you cannot possibly be meant for you. It seems like an easy concept. But when the heart is involved, logic and reasoning don’t matter. Because in one moment, you’re future with this person is one you thought would become a reality then the next you’re struggling to put together pieces of…