friendship
C.S Lewis got it right: friendship is born when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"
How to Handle Someone Who Makes Offensive Remarks about Something You are Passionate About
You are sitting there having a nice conversation with someone when all of a sudden they start slamming the very thing you are passionate about…Whether it’s your favorite baseball team or a spinning class you just joined, the remarks sting.
By Marie Dubuqueabout 22 hours ago in Humans
How First Impressions Shape Attraction In Modern Dating Scenarios
First impressions nowadays are not merely the snap judgments that they used to be, as they are the basis on which attraction or rejection is founded in moments during modern dating. Humans are quick to make a judgment, whether it is by a dating app, social event, or even a casual encounter. These snap judgments are based by the evolutionary psychology, where fast determination of trust, health, and compatibility had been used previously in preserving life.
By Mark Hipstera day ago in Humans
First Date Attraction Psychology That Builds Instant Emotional Connection
There is a special psychological burden of first dates. They are not mere coincidences but quick evaluations of incompatible, safe, and possible connection. After a few seconds, two individuals determine the existence of chemistry, trust, curiosity and comfort. Although attraction may be viewed as either physical or instinctual, research in modern psychology reveals that emotional attachment is equally strong in influencing first impressions.
By Mark Hipstera day ago in Humans
Practical Self Care Methods That Improve Mental Health And Daily Balance
Self-care has been discussed as something non-essential or indulgence, although in the truth, it is one of the most significant pillars of mental health. Stress is sneaking up without regular self-care, daily life begins to feel monumental even without a dramatic situation, and the management of emotions becomes more difficult. Self-care does not mean a vacation every now and then; it is the tiny, daily decisions that help to maintain emotional equilibrium, cognitive clarity and bodily health.
By Willian Jamesa day ago in Humans
How Emotional Healing Begins With Self Awareness And Inner Compassion Daily
Emotional healing cannot be a moment of awakening or a one day solution to the internal suffering. It is a process, a gradual process, that occurs as one develops awareness, patience and practice. Self-awareness and inner compassion are the two key pillars at the core of this journey. The combination of them forms the psychological safety that is required to initiate and proceed with the healing process.
By Willian Jamesa day ago in Humans
Solving emotional triggers instead of suppressing them
It is a normal aspect of being human to be triggered by emotions. It could be a tone of voice, a particular situation or even a memory that can trigger strong responses of anger, sadness, anxiety, or fear. Most of the individuals react to these stimuli by repressing their feelings because they think it is the most effective mode of holding on to control. But repression is not the solution. It just covers it up, usually leading to its reappearance in future with more strength.
By Robert Smitha day ago in Humans
🌕 Humanity Returns to the Moon After 50 Years
A New Era of Space Exploration For the first time in more than 50 years, humanity is preparing to return to the Moon. The last time astronauts walked on the lunar surface was during Apollo 17 in 1972. Since then, the Moon remained quiet, visited only by robotic spacecraft and satellites. But today, a new space race has begun — and this time, the goal is not just to visit the Moon, but to stay.
By Wings of Time a day ago in Humans
Why secure attachment style leads to healthier love patterns
Love is a very strong human experience, but it can also be a very disorienting and emotional one. Why are there relationships that are safe, balanced and satisfying and others full of anxiety, distance or even emotional turmoil? This is usually in attachment styles- deep rooted patterns that determine our way of relating with others.
By Robert Smitha day ago in Humans
Why is No One Polite Anymore?
Have you noticed that people don’t care anymore? They want what they want and don’t give a sh*t about the consequences. Am I oversimplifying this problem? Or is it even a problem? Maybe people aren’t any more rude now than in the past. I just feel it more these days.
By Marie Dubuque2 days ago in Humans
The Anniversary
How Missing the Date Revealed What Actually Matters THE MORNING AFTER THE FORGOTTEN DATE 🤦 I woke up on the morning of October fifteenth to a text from my mother that read "Happy anniversary to my favorite couple! 15 years!" accompanied by approximately seventeen heart emojis, and the bottom dropped out of my stomach because I had completely forgotten our fifteenth wedding anniversary and based on the absence of any card or gift or even a verbal acknowledgment from my wife Rachel, she had forgotten it too, and this mutual forgetting which should have been a minor embarrassment that we laughed about over coffee instead triggered a crisis of evaluation that consumed the following weeks as we both separately and then together confronted the question of what it meant that two people who had stood before friends and family and God and promised to love each other forever had become so consumed by the logistics of daily existence, by work and children and mortgage and the thousand routine demands that fill the space where intentional love used to live, that the anniversary of their commitment had passed without either of them noticing 💔
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Humans
The Fight
Why the Same Argument Keeps Happening and What It Really Means THE ARGUMENT THAT WON'T DIE 🔄 Every Sunday evening between approximately six and eight PM my partner James and I have the same fight, not the same topic necessarily though the topics repeat with depressing regularity including housework distribution, spending habits, family visit frequency, and the eternal question of whose turn it is to cook dinner, but the same underlying dynamic where a minor irritation triggers disproportionate emotional response that escalates through a predictable sequence of criticism, defensiveness, withdrawal, and eventual exhausted reconciliation that resolves nothing because the same fight will recur the following Sunday with different surface content but identical emotional architecture, and this pattern which we have been repeating for three years with the reliability of a weekly television schedule has become so familiar that we can predict each other's responses to the point where the fight feels scripted rather than spontaneous, and the question of why two intelligent adults who love each other and who are aware of the pattern cannot break it has become more interesting and more important than the question of who should do the dishes 🍽️
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Humans
The First Date
How They Treat the Waiter Tells You Everything THE TEST YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE GIVING 🍽️ You are sitting across from someone who has been charming and attentive and funny for the past forty-five minutes, making eye contact, asking thoughtful questions, laughing at your jokes, and generally performing the specific version of themselves that they have determined is most likely to produce a second date, and everything about the interaction suggests that this person is kind and considerate and worth your time, and then the waiter arrives and something shifts, not dramatically enough to constitute obvious rudeness but subtly enough that you almost miss it, a slight change in tone from warm to transactional, a failure to make eye contact with someone who is performing a service, an impatience with a question about the specials that would not have been displayed if the question had come from you rather than from someone in an apron, and this shift which lasts approximately thirty seconds before the date persona is reassumed contains more useful information about your potential partner's character than the entire preceding forty-five minutes of performed charm because the way someone treats a person who can do nothing for them reveals who they actually are rather than who they are pretending to be 👀
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Humans
