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[colbysphilosophy @ColbySobchuk]

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I finally figured out that true love isn't about the high, the butterflies, or the easy moments.
It's about choosing someone even when it's hard, when the spark fades, when life gets tough, when you're not feeling it, but you still show up. That's real love.
And if you walk away just because it gets hard, you'll never know how beautiful it could ve been when you chose to stay and build something stronger.

[The married man @marriedmn]

Strongest relationships are the ones that start over.

When things fall apart, it’s easy to walk away.

But restarting? That takes real courage. It’s not about pretending nothing happened. It’s about acknowledging the mistakes, owning them, and choosing to rebuild.

Relationships lose their spark when trust fades and communication dies.
But here’s the truth: If both people are willing to fight for it, anything can be fixed.

Starting over means:

• Learning to forgive — not just your partner, but yourself.
• Rekindling the friendship.
• Reigniting the passion.
• Building a brand new foundation.

You can’t go back to how things were.
But you can create something even stronger — based on lessons learned and real mutual respect.

Restarting isn’t weakness. It’s growth.
It’s looking at someone’s flaws and still choosing them every single day.
It’s hard work… but the best things in life always are.

So if you’re considering a restart don’t let fear stop you.
Believe in second chances.

[Marcellus Wiley @marcelluswiley]

Marriage means enduring your spouses’ childhood trauma.
Divorce means you couldn’t.

[Mindset & Growth 🌱 @MinisterVicThor]

@Theholisticpsyc The one who stays in the fire with you is worth more than the one who just brings flowers to the party.

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

I had a massive reality check last night about how Instagram is actively destroying long-term relationships by convincing us that love is supposed to be a 24/7 "soft life" aesthetic.

It was late, the apartment was stifling, and the power had randomly tripped. I was lying in the dark, scrolling through IG, watching a reel of some influencer getting surprised with a Cartier bracelet and a baecation. The caption was: “Never settle for less.”

Honestly, I let the internet poison my mind for a second. That familiar, creeping panic started settling in. I started wondering if my own relationship had lost the "spark" because we hadn’t done any grand romantic gestures lately. We were basically just splitting the crushing weight of adulthood.
Then I looked over at my man. There was no curated aesthetic. No cinematic background music. He was completely exhausted from his own day, but there he was, sitting on the bare floor in the dark, using his phone flashlight to help me count and sort out my ID Vogue orders so my morning deliveries wouldn't be delayed.

The entire Instagram illusion just shattered for me.
Social media has gaslit us into believing that if a relationship isn’t actively triggering your anxiety with constant highs and butterflies, it’s "dead." We mistake peace for boredom. We want a burning fire, completely forgetting that fires eventually burn the house down.
The harsh truth? Most long-term relationships aren't held together by overwhelming passion. They are held together by a VOW to look at each other in the middle of a brutal economy and say, "I am not going to let you drown today."

The internet will call that "settling." But the internet doesn't know a damn thing about what it actually takes to keep the water out and the house warm when things get dark. Stop letting a 60-second PR campaign ruin your real life.

[Prestige Couch @prestigecouch_]

When people are in pain, they go looking for permission. They scroll through Reddit, they ask their friends, they search for someone to tell them what they already want to hear. And what they find, almost always, is the same thing that they hear and that is leave… Just leave. As if the relationship were a burning building and the only rational act is to run.

We have built a culture of exits. A culture that is far more comfortable handing you a door than asking you to sit with the question of how you got here. And I understand it. Leaving feels clean and it feels like agency. It looks, from the outside, like self-respect.

But here is what I want you to consider. The person you are leaving the relationship with is still you.

Most of what breaks us apart in love is not the other person. It is the old story we brought with us before we ever met them. The attachment wound we have been carrying since childhood. The pattern we swore we would never repeat. And if you walk away without looking at any of that, you will find yourself, six months later, standing in a new relationship that feels suspiciously familiar.

There is something about the tension of staying. Not staying out of fear, not staying to keep the peace, but choosing to stay in the discomfort long enough to actually get curious. To ask not just what is wrong with them, but what is alive in me that keeps responding this way.

Real intimacy is not built in the easy moments. It is built in the repair and in the willingness to be heard without immediately defending yourself. In the capacity to understand that friction, handled with care, is not the enemy of love. It is often where love actually begins to deepen.

I have sat with couples who had already written each other off in their minds. Who were, emotionally speaking, already gone. And what brought them back was not grand gestures or perfect communication. It was curiosity. A single moment of genuine wondering about the other person, and about themselves.

Therapy is not about saving a relationship at all costs. It is about helping you move from a reactive decision to a conscious one. Because you deserve to know the difference between leaving because you have truly grown apart, and leaving because you are afraid of what staying might ask of you.

[colbysphilosophy @ColbySobchuk]

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@Woody56292 @ac132 @dieworkwear Commenting to say I’m also a real person following Derek, i usually like his clothing blogs but don’t comment. Anthony you got a bad take and look bad, sorry.

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The unemployment rate rose 0.3 percentage points to 6.8%, as more people looked for work. #vibesecion

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@WestJetNews @WestJet Ultra basic fare is now priced the same as basic fare but with less features. Change my mind. Price history shows it’s the same price.

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Sauna Thread

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[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵

1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody