Raw Chapter No. 003 "Who decided there was a rulebook anyway?" Don’t text them first. Wait three days. Never give them the impression you like them. Play hard to get. Who even wrote these rules? They make finding someone harder than it needs to be. At some point honesty became strategy. We aren’t asking ourselves how we feel about someone. We ask how we should appear. Am I showing too much interest? Will they think I want something too soon? But what happens when you actually
Raw Chapter No. 002 "Trust isn't built with passwords. It's built with consistency." Every couple has a different philosophy when it comes to phones. Some know every password. Some believe certain areas should remain off limits. Neither are inherently right or wrong. But what intrigues me isn't the phone, it's what the request exposes. Sometimes when people say, "If you have nothing to hide, give me your phone," they mean... "Help me feel safe." Other times when someone says,
Raw Chapter No. 001 "Some conversations don't end when people walk away. They end when we decide they no longer deserve space in our minds." I've learned the toughest lessons don't always come with a sense of closure. We often trick ourselves into believing if we could just talk to them one more time...hear them explain...hear them say they're sorry THEN we can move forward. But life isn't fair, and doesn't always allow us that little grace. Some people leave. Some people lie