Molly Burford

I dodged your name in conversations, and expertly did not flinch when someone did bring you up. I acted unfazed, aloof. Totally stable and healed.

Ms. Bialik’s article perpetuates that idea that women can avoid abuse and harassment and assault if we would only “dress modestly” or not “act flirtatiously” or be “perfect tens.”

Ingrid Nilsen (aka missglamorazzi) is the angel of YouTube. She is intelligent and eloquent and hardworking and talented and beautiful and kind and genuine, and oh my God, I just love her.

Receiving Gifts: You’re always attracted to a person who is incredibly generous and thoughtful. The kind of person you always like is someone who is constantly thinking of what someone else needs.

You’re completely and utterly miserable sometimes.

You can’t kick the Prozac or Zoloft by thinking about how the sun is shining and that Beyonce and Jay-Z worked things out after “Lemonade” and had two beautiful twins.

I’m too good for everyone!!!!!!

You’re allowed to stop listening for the echo of their goodbye, and you’re allowed to stop hoping for their call. You’re allowed to stop asking “What if?”

But you know what? I’m starting to think that maybe this inherent brokenness is okay. That maybe I’m not meant to be whole. That maybe we’re all just a little bit broken.

“I solemnly swear I am up to no good.”

Aries: You lose her when you treat her like an option, rather than a priority. As the first sign of the Zodiac, an Aries takes her needs and wants seriously.

Depression tells you that you are a bad friend, that you are bad at your job, that you have no hope for a better future.

Focus on one goal at a time. Not three, six, or twelve.

Feeling drained from always going above and beyond what’s necessary to keep and maintain healthy relationships.

Pisces: You’re the single friend whose feelings don’t get taken seriously because you just have so. many. feels.

Ducking autocorrect. Need I say more?

Slowly but surely, I will loosen my grip on the idea of us, of we.

Because the cold, hard truth is this: if he acts like he doesn’t give a fuck about you, it’s because he doesn’t.