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How You Will Inevitably Screw Up This 2018, Based On Your Zodiac Sign
Cancer: If you allow your insecurities, doubts, and moodiness to cloud your judgment you might miss your chance for a fresh start.
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Read This If Your Heart Is Breaking This Holiday Season
Cherish any moment that you realize what is important in life and what truly matters.
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13 Life Lessons I Hope My Little Sister Learns From Me
Your older siblings are smarter than you think they are. Listen.
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Here’s Why You’re Struggling To Find Happiness (And What You Can Do About It), Based On Your Moon Sign
Sagittarius: You have a deep-seated need for freedom, and if you feel stuck in life, you’ll find yourself constantly yearning for something more.
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What You Need To Do To Fall In Love (In 5 Words), Based On Your Zodiac Sign
Virgo: Stop giving your anxiety power.
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When You Love Someone, You Never Stop Putting In Effort
Effort means placing a kiss on their cheek when you come home from work and squeezing their hand while grocery shopping and blasting their favorite song in the car.
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All The Questions Every New Mom Googles After Giving Birth, Answered
What color is my newborn baby’s poop supposed to be?
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9 Realities Only People Who Live With Depression Will Understand
People who don’t suffer from depression are not able to fathom the intense feelings of pain and sadness experienced by those who have depression.
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16 Signs You’re Going To Be Much Happier In 2018 (Even If 2017 Sucked For You)
You’re tired at the end of each day, but in an invigorated way. In a way where you know that you put 100% of your effort into your day and…
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When You Matter To Me, I’ll Give You More Chances Than You Deserve
I get attached easily because it’s rare for me to get along with other people. Usually, I have nothing to say. Usually, I fake laughs and smiles until I’m alone…
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When It’s Easier To Leave Than Stay
Every time you stayed, they showed why you should have left. Every time you stayed, they end up leaving first.
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Your Forever Person Will Look Like This
Your forever person will answer your most serious texts with phone calls.
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20 Ways You Made 2017 Harder Than It Had To Be (Without Even Realizing It)
You let other people tell you why you could or couldn’t love yourself, forgetting that that permission belongs 100% to you and only you.
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Here’s What Kind Of Mom You Are, Based On Your Love Language
Quality Time: You’re the mom who shows up.
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What You Need To Realize About Moving On Because It Isn’t As Simple As Unfollowing Them
It means allowing yourself to fall completely apart and be okay with not getting up for a while.
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I Am Not Afraid Of Heartbreak
I know that real love only comes when I abandon all fear and say, ‘I’m all in.’ So I’m all in.
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Why It Hurts Her So Much When You Say You Are ‘Not Ready For A Relationship’
It convinces us to stick around for longer than we should just in case. It gives us false hope. It makes us think we might have a future when you…
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This Is Me Finally Letting Go Of The Idea Of Us
Moments where we each needed someone to hate and we loved each other enough that, that’s where it fell.
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The Best Relationship Of Your Life Will Be With The Girl Who Loves Dogs
She’s not the girl who is going to care what you do and if there’s some fancy title attached to it, she’s going to care about why you do it.
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The Way Insecure Girls Accidentally Break Hearts
I never realize I’m hurting people because I think so low of myself. I can’t imagine anyone being upset about losing me. I can’t imagine anyone caring that much about…
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To The Friends Who Never Let Distance Come Between Us
Thank you for reserving the space we left instead of replacing us. Thank you for letting everyone know that no one can take our place.
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I Am Slowly Learning Love Is Not Meant To Hurt Me
It is not love when only one person is exerting effort, when only one person seems to care whether the relationship lasts or collapses into rubble.
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Love Is A Verb
Love is not a one-time thought or feeling. It’s a continual action, continual choice, continual promise to another person. Love is a verb.
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9 Things You Need To Know Before Dating A Middle Child
They can be hard to read. Being the peacekeeper leaves them feeling conflicted at times.
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Nice Try, But She’s Not Coming Back
She will burn every bridge that has your name on it, watch the flames kiss the wood so she never has to the cross the river back to you.
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27 People Reveal The Worst Gifts They’ve Ever Received And It’ll Make You Feel Better About Your Own Shitty Christmas Presents
“My grandmother gave me a pineapple, wrapped in newspaper. She told me that if she were to use real gift wrapping paper, she would have to deduct the cost from…
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The Vital Lesson About Love You Learned In 2017 (Based On Your Zodiac Sign)
Virgo: You learned that almost relationships can hurt just as deeply as official relationships. You learned that your heart can be broken by someone you never dated.
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Here’s How You, A Regular Commoner, Can Also Become British Royalty
If Meghan Markle can do it, so can you!!! Sort of.
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I Want A Real Relationship, Not An Almost Relationship
I want someone who will put in effort instead of doing the bare minimum to keep me around.
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What You’re Dreading Most About 2018, Based On Your Zodiac
Libra: In 2018, you fear that people’s desire to change will cause tensions or conflict.
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I Love Myself For Losing You
I love myself for keeping my standards high. For saying no to your unanswered texts, your canceled plans, your unspoken compliments.
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Dear 2018, All I Ask For Is A Love That Stays
Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned even when you’re the best version of yourself, doing extremely well there are things I can’t achieve, versions of myself I can’t be…
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Let 2018 Be Your Reset Button
In 2018, it’s time to let go of your past relationships and inner demons. It’s time to breathe in all of that hurt and anger, and gently let it out.…
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This Story About Why I’m Terrified Every Time I Take A Shower Will Give You Nightmares
Good luck ever trusting anyone again.
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You Don’t Have To Have Sex To Cheat On Your Person
You are cheating on your person every time you hang out with someone behind their back or text someone behind their back.
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To The Woman Who Finally Found The Strength To Walk Away From Her Toxic Relationship
There are going to be moments where he tries to lure you back, you have to realize it was him who needed you this whole time.
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24 Harsh Truths I’ve Learned About Love In 24 Years
No matter how much you love someone, it doesn’t make them obligated to love you back.
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15 Signs You Might Be Surrounding Yourself With The Wrong Type Of People
Remember the most important people in your life are going to be the ones who show you relationships are supposed to be easy.
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Why I’m Petrified To Like You
I’m scared to feel things for you or for anyone. I’m scared to break open. I’m scared to give someone my heart and to have it crumpled up again. I’m…
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Don’t Fall For The Guy Who Says He Doesn’t Want A Relationship (Because You Won’t Change His Mind)
He tells you what he wants from the beginning, or really what he doesn’t want, a relationship. Monogamy. That’s not for him, he says. He’s not good at it, he…
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The Invisible War Zone: 5 Ways Children Of Narcissistic Parents Self-Destruct In Adulthood
The children of narcissistic parents grow up in an invisible war zone and are programmed to self-destruct in these five devastating ways.
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The Best Relationship Of Your Life Will Be With The Girl Who Gets Excited Over The Little Things
The little things are what can make a relationship collapse or last.
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It’s Going To Ache Before It Starts To Heal
It is human nature to reach the point of no return and recognise that the only way out of the sadness, the pain, the heartache is to move forward in…
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The Moment I Realized Your Distance Was A Blessing
Your absence was the beginning of me finding myself. Your absence was the beginning of me learning to distance myself from people like you.
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I’ll Always Love You Like It’s The Beginning
It’s been a while since the first time we said, “I love you.” When we were both hopelessly falling, and just wishing, praying, that the other was falling too.
