breakups
When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.
Life After Gaslighting: What Healthy Relationships Are Supposed To Look Like
When you have been in a toxic relationship for a long time, it's hard to remember how a healthy relationship is supposed to function. Perhaps due to your upbringing, you never saw healthy relationships in action.
By Jessie Labrie6 years ago in Humans
The Gods of Times Square
A New York City cab driver once told me, as he snaked through the mire of Times Square traffic, "You know...we hate the things you all love" and with a dispassionate hatred, vaguely gestured toward the gnarly, tangled mess that surrounded us. And, now, I can absolutely see why New Yorkers would abhor this place to which all the tourists flock. Not only do the waddling masses from those flyover states remind them of the reality that exists outside the city, its adrenaline-inducing effect is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. It seems to me that Times Square, and places like it, are where people come to fill themselves up--for a little while, at least. This is where they come to see the bigger versions of familiar things, those logos that adorn the streets of their hometowns, lit up and towering over them, their corporate allegiances much stronger than the thin ones they have to their gods.
By Heather Richmond6 years ago in Humans
