Maria Noun

[Maria Noun @MnNoun]

🖤.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

[rin @feminominion]

was so locked in last night that my girlfriend had to send me an email

[نزار قباني @nizaryaat]

لَا سُلْطَةَ فِي الحُبِّ تَعْلُو سُلْطَتِي
فَالرَّأْيُ رَأْيِي وَالخِيَارُ خِيَارِي

[نزار قباني @nizaryaat]

أخافُ أن أحبك جداً فأفقدك ثُم اتالم،
وأخافُ إيضاً أن لا أحبُك فتضيعُ فرصة الحُب
فأندم أخبرني كيفَ أحِبْكَ بِلا ألم وَكيفّ لا أحبكَ بلا ندم

[Seduction King @seduction__king]

GIRL'S LOVE LANGUAGE

• When she stares at your lips – kiss her
• When she playfully pushes you – hold her tighter
• When she's at her worst – tell her she's beautiful
• When she ignores you – give her more of your attention
• When she cries – hug her; no words needed
• When she pulls away – pull her back in
• When she's scared – be her safe place
• When she shares a secret – protect it
• When she walks – wrap your arms around her waist from behind
• When she says "I love you" – she means it deeper than you'll ever understand

[Maria Noun @MnNoun]

I had no illusions about the future but the present. The present got me.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

They put 17 people, married an average of 21 years, into a brain scanner and showed them a photo of their spouse. The same parts of the brain lit up that fire when a teenager has their first crush. Two decades together, and the chemistry was still going off like fireworks.

The study ran at Stony Brook in 2011. What changes after 20 years is the anxiety. That panic of not knowing if they love you back, the wondering, the checking. All of that fades. The pull toward them stays.

So that tells you what old love looks like in the brain. It doesn’t tell you how a couple gets there.

A marriage researcher named John Gottman has spent 40 years on that question. He films couples arguing in his lab at the University of Washington and predicts whether they’ll divorce. He gets it right 93.6% of the time, from 15 minutes of footage. More than 3,000 couples now.

He watches the two-second moments between sentences. The pauses. That’s where the prediction lives. The fights themselves matter less.

His go-to example: your wife is staring out the window and says, look at that bird. You glance up and say, oh wow. Or you keep scrolling on your phone. That tiny choice, that little reach for your attention, is what he calls a bid.

He watched newlyweds in his lab and followed them for six years. The couples who were still married had responded to each other’s bids 86 times out of 100. The couples who divorced had responded 33 out of 100. Same money fights. Same in-laws. Same dishes in the sink. The one thing that was different was the bird.

This part stopped me. Gottman found that 69% of the things every couple fights about are problems that never get solved. The chores. The money. His mother. Whose family they spend Christmas with. The arguments repeat for 50 years. Happy couples and unhappy couples have roughly the same list of problems. The happy ones learned to argue about that list without contempt. The eye roll. The sigh. The little smile that says you are pathetic. Gottman calls contempt the sulfuric acid of relationships. He says it’s the single biggest sign that a marriage is over.

When you see two old people asleep on each other on a plane, the forgiveness in that picture is real. They have absorbed thousands of small failures by now. There is something quieter underneath the forgiveness, though. Decades ago, one of them said look at that bird. The other one looked up.

[- @Rqh1_]

يا تشد إيدي للأبد يا لا تلمسها ابد .

[EmptyCircle @LECX___]

أقبّلك على شفتيكِ
أقبّلك بين خدّيكِ
أقبّلك على عينيكِ
أسرق قبلةً من شفتيكِ
أطبعها بين خدّيكِ
وأودّعها على عينيكِ
أذوب على شفتيكِ
وأرتاح بين خدّيكِ
وأغفو على عينيكِ
أهمس لشفتيكِ بقبلة
وأحتمي بين خدّيكِ
وأبتسم عند عينيكِ
أرتشف حبّك من شفتيكِ
وأخبّئه بين خدّيكِ
وأعيشه في عينيكِ

[𑣲 @theamourkiss]

love language

[Cłoùd𖤐 @vapefuls]

are love letters still a thing? i want one

[أبْحِر @k2l9i]

احدى مخاوفي هي الارتباط بإنسان صامت
وانا كإنسان يحب يستمع، احتاج دائمًا من يثرثر لي عن احلامه، طموحاته، افكاره، مبادئه، خيالاته الخ. الثرثرة صفة اساسية لدخول دائرتي، والضوضاء التي يخلقها أي ثرثار تبعث الطمأنينة بطريقة ما

[أحمد @MoAhmedlll]

في رواية مئة عام من العزلة، يحذّر الأب ابنه من خطر "الانغلاق العاطفي"والتحوّل إلى شخص بارد القلب بسبب خيبات أماله المتكررة

عبقرية الجملة أنها تصور بكثافة تآكل المشاعر لدى الإنسان بسبب الكراهية وتكرار الأخطاء والتي تؤدي لموته معنوياً.

" انتبه إلى قلبك يا أوريليانو،إنك تتعفن حيا"

[alicia @melissaskings]

“i know you don’t have to tell me everything, but i was kind of hoping you’d want to” … incredibly devastating line

[ً @phenstruation]

imagine your partner has a fond look reserved only for you, which is so devastating that people have given it a name and constantly talk about it and theorize about it even when the relationship isnt public bc ur partner loves you too much to hide it

[Quame Jnr @quame_jnr1]

Some years ago I read that when you’re told to close your eyes and envisage the brightest light, the brightest light you can conjure is the brightest light you’ve ever seen.

It led to a paradigm shift in me.
Exposure expands the limit of what you can imagine

[9 1 7 @xiiitri]

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