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10 Reasons You Need To Stop Bitching About Your Partner’s Ex(es) Right This Second
If you want a healthy long-term relationship, you can’t pick and choose which pieces of your partner’s past to accept while dismissing others (like that one particularly loathsome cunt they almost proposed to in college) as repugnant or unmentionable.
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What It’s Like To Have Wanderlust, But Not The Means To Wander
Perhaps growing up in a small town made me this way, but I’ve always had this long-term desire to get out and see the world, like a tick or a bad-habit that consciously taps into my perspective.
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The Best Answer To ‘What Should I Do With My Life?’ That You’ll Ever Read
What you do of course, in a perfect world, doesn’t define who you are.
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7 Weird Things That Inevitably Happen When You Begin To Get Comfortable With The Person You Just Started Dating
Before you’re a couple your mindset is “I’m a girl. Girls don’t poop.” After you’re official it not only changes to, “Everybody poops,” it may even go as far as “Wow, I really need to take a shit right now.”
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16 Things You Don’t Know About Europe Until You Get There
There are many ways to flush a toilet. In the U.S., most toilets look the same. In Europe, every toilet feels like a puzzle you have to solve.
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49 Deeply Creepy Tales Of The Paranormal To Read If You Don’t Want To Sleep Tonight
When my oldest sister was little, like 3, she asked my then pregnant aunt to pick her up to hold her. My mom said she was like “she can’t pick you up, honey, she has a baby in her tummy.” And then my little sister was like “that baby is dead!”
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8 Things You Absolutely Don’t Have To Do In Your Early 20s
Have a ton of friends. This is a PSA to Taylor Swift: having that many friends is A) not normal B) not normal and C) a lie???
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50 One-Sentence Resolutions That You Can Absolutely Maintain For A Life-Changing Year
Focus on finding happiness through what you already have, rather than what you believe you still need.
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15 Non-Negotiable Things You Should Have In Your Apartment In Your 20s
Leave a candle in your bathroom just in case, and have some around to make sure that your place always smells like a place where you would want to be. There’s nothing worse than a stinky house.
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13 Little Ways You Are Self-Sabotaging Your Own Life Without Even Realizing It
You are completely within your right to stand up and say, “I didn’t like that.” Your feelings are legitimate; do not ever believe otherwise. By ignoring it when you’re unhappy you are permitting your own unhappiness.
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27 Lessons About Living Your Fullest Life, From Shonda Rhimes In Her New Book ‘Year Of Yes’
On Thanksgiving morning of 2013, Shonda Rhimes’s older sister Delorse muttered six words to her: “You never say yes to anything.” And so began a life-changing year (that has continued to this day) focused on putting yourself out there, doing…
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18 Things Only People Who Grew Up With Non-Parental Parents Understand
Some people learned how to cook from their parents. You learned how to order chinese takeout. And that skill has served you well.
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Something About You Makes Me Less Afraid Of Forever
Can I even trust me? Can I speak for myself 5 years from now? 10? I don’t know what she will think or feel. I don’t know if she will still want the same things. I still trust she will want forever, because she always has.
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After Finding Out The Terrifying Truth Behind My Gym I’m Abandoning My New Year’s Resolution
I saw the hole in the floor. I got closer and realized that there was a door in the floor, with a ladder leading down underneath the locker rooms. I tried to shrug it off, thinking that it probably just led to some electrical shit. But this weird feeling was nagging at me.
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Here Are The Most Common Enneagram Types For Each Myers-Briggs Personality Type
The Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory and the Enneagram of Personality make up two distinct yet highly complementary personality systems.
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20 Women On Their Absolute Dream Proposal
I would want all of my family there, and a complete surprise. I want him to get down on one knee and use my full name. But for me the surprise part is the most important.
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22 Ridiculously Funny Times Urban Dictionary Had 100% No Chill
Some people need to be #DONE with Urban Dictionary.
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