love
All you need is Love, and Love is all you need.
This Question Really Hurts
I was not going to write about this because it is one of those subjects I find too painful to talk about. However, I've decided to take the courage to talk about it, because I feel my feelings on the topic need to be expressed.
By Carol Ann Townendabout 12 hours ago in Humans
The Vow
Why Our Second Wedding Was Better Than Our First THE VOW THAT SHATTERED 💔 On our wedding day in 2009 I stood across from my husband Thomas in a church filled with two hundred and fifty guests and spoke vows that I meant with every atom of my being: I promise to love you in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, forsaking all others until death do us part, and I believed with the absolute certainty of a twenty-six-year-old who had never been tested that these vows were not aspirational but descriptive, that they captured who I already was rather than who I would need to become, and that the love I felt standing in that church in that dress with that man looking at me like I was the center of his universe would sustain itself automatically through whatever challenges life presented because love in my twenty-six-year-old understanding was a feeling that once established was permanent and self-maintaining rather than a practice that required daily cultivation and that could wither from neglect as surely as a garden untended 💍
By The Curious Writerabout 12 hours ago in Humans
Letting Go Of Attachment Without Numbing Your Feelings
Releasing attachment can be misconstrued to mean closing down or simply moving on too fast. The truth of the matter is that healthy emotion release does not involve freezing emotion but rather learning to experience it in its entirety without being dominated by it. It can be attached to an individual, a relationship, a memory, or even a personality. Once it gets painful most individuals attempt to avoid it by ignoring feelings. However, emotional suppression is not a cure of attachment, but it postpones and intensifies it.
By Mark Hipsterabout 24 hours ago in Humans
What To Do When You Love Someone Who Can’t Love Back
It is one of the most emotionally complicated and painful situations a person can experience when he or she loves a person who will not love him or her back. It establishes a silent yet strong struggle between hope and reality. One side has deep emotional attachment and the other emotional absence or unavailability. This disproportion may cause longing, confusion, self-doubt and even emotional exhaustion.
By Mark Hipstera day ago in Humans
How To Rebuild Trust After Betrayal Or Cheating
The most vulnerable, but crucial building block of any relationship is trust. The emotional blow of betraying or being cheated on can be devastating. It can be shocking, angry, sad, confused and insecure. It is not easy to build trust after such experience, and to some relationships, it is possible in case both partners are ready to involve themselves in honest, consistent, and emotionally mature healing works.
By Willian Jamesa day ago in Humans
How To Recover After A Breakup Without Losing Your Identity
The process of a breakup may seem like an emotional tsunami. It trembles habits, interpersonal relations, self-perception, and future prospects simultaneously. To most individuals, the loss of a partner is not the worst thing at all, it is the loss of the sense of identity which was closely connected to the relationship. It is not impossible to come out of a break up without losing your identity, but it takes conscious effort to find your emotional strength, be aware of your emotions and give yourself time to heal.
By Willian Jamesa day ago in Humans
How To Stop Overthinking And Calm Your Emotional Mind
One of the most tiresome mental habits that an individual can undergo is overthinking. It is able to make a mountain out of a molehill, repeat the same mistake over and over again, and cause anxiety about matters that have not even occurred yet. Overthinking turns into a habit, resulting in insomnia, anxiety, and inability to concentrate on things or enjoy life. To be mentally clear, emotionally balanced and generally healthy, it is imperative to learn how to quit overthinking and open your heart to the calmness of your emotional mind.
By Willian Jamesa day ago in Humans
How Trauma Affects Relationships And Ways To Heal From It
Most people at various periods of life undergo negative thinking, however, when it gets chronic, it may have severe consequences on both emotional health, relationships, and performance. CBT is one of the most effective psychological strategies that have been discovered to deal with such negative thought processes. CBT helps individuals to adopt effective techniques of transforming negative thinking to a balanced and constructive thinking by concentrating on the impact of thoughts on feelings and behaviors.
By Robert Smitha day ago in Humans
The Text
How Three Words on a Screen Ended Everything THE NOTIFICATION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING 🔔 Jennifer Mitchell was loading the dishwasher on a Sunday evening in October when her husband David's phone buzzed on the kitchen counter and the notification preview displayed three words from a contact saved as "Work - Mike" that read "I miss you" followed by a heart emoji, and in the approximately two seconds it took for Jennifer's eyes to register the notification and her brain to process its implications, twenty-two years of marriage, three children, a house they had built together, and an entire shared life that she believed was fundamentally solid despite the normal stresses and distances of long-term partnership collapsed into a single devastating realization that the man she had trusted completely had been lying to her about something fundamental, and the specific pain of that moment was not anger or sadness but rather the sickening vertigo of discovering that the ground you have been standing on does not actually exist, that the reality you inhabited was a performance maintained by someone who was simultaneously living a different reality that you knew nothing about 💔😱
By The Curious Writera day ago in Humans
