Last night, after one of those slow, affectionate nights together, my husband and I ended up talking. The kind of late-night talk that feels honest and easy. He said something that stayed with me. “You know, when our kids still a little…,” he told me, “I rarely saw you the way I used to, as … Continue reading The Art of Noticing Each Other Again
A couple of days ago, I did something small but strangely significant: I texted an old friend. We hadn’t spoken in a while. Things between us had gone off track, not because we stopped being friends, but because life threw us into a disagreement we couldn’t quite navigate. Still, I remembered her. And for me, … Continue reading The Stoic Guide to Being Left on Read
My phone rang. It was my best friend's name on the screen. I'm not the kind of person who always picks up someone else's call if it's not essential for me, but I decided to pick it up, since I know it's usually important if she made a call, and she is an important person … Continue reading What Do Friends Really Need: Listening or Advice?
Sofia was the kind of student every teacher remembered. She wasn't the smartest in class, but she was very curious. She stayed after class to ask questions about the lecture, wrote essays on any available paper she could find, and viewed lectures as facts to apply in real life. In the first semester of her … Continue reading The Art of Giving Constructive Criticism
I just left Desi & Arif's (pseudonym) apartment. It was raining a little, not dramatically, just that soft, cold kind of drizzle that feels like it’s trying to match the mood. And I can't stop replaying it. The plate. It started with a plate. I sat there, third-wheeling a conversation I wasn’t invited into. And … Continue reading The Secrets Behind Lasting Relationships Revealed! (Part 1)
