Never in my life has the USMNT jumped out to a big lead and been so dominant at the World Cup that I could enjoy even a minute of a game without terror.
This feels like watching the USWNT.
“stay with them through the ups and downs."
downs are NOT:
cheating
disrespecting you
abuse
manipulation
gaslighting
control
downs are:
financial hardships
health issues
tragedies
losing the "spark"
not being as close
job losses
A healthy relationship will test you more than a toxic one. Because it won't let you run. It holds up a mirror and says: Show up. Communicate. Grow. Swallow the pride, It's a repeated choice to stay and work it together. Even when it's hard and ugly. That's why real love scares people so much in this generation.
When you in a serious relationship, you’re suppose to move differently. Yeah you grown you can do whatever you want, but certain things are out of respect you have for your partner! It’s not about being controlled or about your partner being insecure it’s a respect thing.
“Loving someone but not choosing them” isn’t love to me at all. I don’t believe you can genuinely love someone while continuously lacking the capacity to show up for them properly. Real love should naturally produce care, consideration, effort and emotional security.
Always choose clean pain over dirty pain.
Clean pain is the pain of telling the truth. The pain of leaving. The pain of disappointing someone. The pain of starting. The pain of being bad at something new. The pain of saving money instead of buying the thing. The pain of going to bed while the party continues. The pain of facing the blank page.
Dirty pain is the pain of avoiding clean pain. The pain of staying too long. The pain of lying. The pain of living above your means. The pain of being known inaccurately. The pain of watching your life shrink around a fear you refuse to face. The pain of managing the consequences of cowardice.
Clean pain is often sharp and brief, dirty pain is dull and chronic.
Self-respect is paying the clean cost early.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.
“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”
“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”
Sam Sarver scored a stoppage-time game-winning goal for FC Dallas last night at San Jose. Beer cans were thrown onto the field and Sarver grabbed one off the ground and shotgunned it.
IMMEDIATE MLS heritage.
We broke up months ago and my brain still defaults to thinking "they'd love this" every time I see a stupid meme. Then I remember you don't exist in my world anymore, and I have to text it to my friends who don't care.
there is no natural good and everything is manual. you either move with intention or build blinders to absolve yourself of your actions, either way you are still acting and still effecting change. no such thing as a neutral state, the water always ripples
If you grew up in the '90s or '00s you were constantly hearing about it since grade school. They had us sit in assemblies in middle & high school telling us we all needed to go to college and corralling us to apply, or else we'd never find work. This is insane revisionism:
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. As a child psychologist, it’s a perfect example of joint attention, preverbal communication, and coregulation.
If you love someone because they love you, that is empathy. If you love someone for their beauty, that is attraction. If you love someone for what they offer, that is interest.
If you love someone for their kindness, that is admiration. But when you cannot fully explain why you love them, only that your heart does, that is love.
I’m not about to let capitalism gaslight me into being a bad person. You don’t think everyone deserves food, shelter, clean water, and healthcare? That’s sad as hełł. Maybe you should reevaluate yourself.
After getting married, there will always be someone prettier than your wife, someone richer than your husband, that's why you better marry your spouse for their soul. So you'll realize that no one on earth could ever be them. So you'll stop searching and stay beside them.
It pains me to watch society get less and less empathetic towards each other. This toxic hyper individualism is threatening our survival. "I don't need to worry about anyone." Actually, living in a society means your actions affect those around you. We all need to care.