my mom once told me "accountability will always feel like an attack when you are not ready to acknowledge how your behavior harms others" and that shit is real.
A lot of men are not being ‘disrespected’ in their relationship, they are just being accurately confronted for the first time in their life.
If every time she names a pattern you hear it as an attack, you will keep turning ordinary feedback into destructive arguments. It is easier to label her as ‘disrespectful’ than is it to admit you have never learned how to be in a relationship where your comfort is not the main priority.
Jeytiri's love story from Neytiri's POV: narrowly escaped murder, enemies to lovers, slow burn
Jeytiri's love story from Jake's POV: love at first sight, flirty banter, domestic bliss
never fall in love with potential. don’t date a man for who he might be in a year. date the man he is right now. love what is happening, not what you hope might happen
1. Our skeletons are wet.
2. your nose is ALWAYS in your line of sight, but your brain ignores it
3. When you receive a donated kidney, they don’t take out the bad one. They just add the good one in.
4. Your immune system doesn't know you have eyes. Otherwise, it would attack them and make you blind. injuring one eye can introduce eye bits to the bloodstream and basically give your immune system the knowledge of having eyes. then it might decide it really fucking hates that and attack your non-injured eye.
5. The quality of the male sperm is responsible for morning sickness, preeclampsia, baby’s gender and almost every single pregnancy related issue.
6. You breathe through one nostril at a time. Don’t believe me? Put your finger below your nose and try.
7. The brain itself has no nerve endings, so it can’t feel pain. That’s why patients can be wide awake during brain surgery and made to perform certain actions.
8. That ringing in silence isn’t silence
When everything is quiet and you hear a faint ringing?
That’s your brain listening to its own nervous system.
You are hearing yourself functioning.
9. You will never experience your own death.
You only experience approaching it… Then nothing.
Everyone else gets closure, stories, funerals, and memories.
You don’t.
You never know you’ve become a memory.
From your perspective, the story just stops mid-sentence.
your SPOUSE is the one who’ll sit beside you when your PARENTS DIE. who’ll hold your hand through CHILDBIRTH. who might have to BATHE YOU if you’re ever too sick to stand. this isn’t just about BUTTERFLIES or DATE NIGHTS. it’s about choosing someone who SHOWS UP... in GRIEF, in MESS, in UNCERTAINTY. so no, LOVE ALONE isn’t enough. COMMITMENT, MATURITY, and the ability to ENDURE life’s ugly parts... that’s what sustains a MARRIAGE. because when life gets PAINFULLY REAL, ROMANCE won’t carry you... CHARACTER will. and the truth is, FOREVER is only possible with someone who knows how to STAY when it’s HARD TO LOVE
princess treatment doesnt mean he buys me whatever i want. it means he LISTENS. he PROTECTS. he LEADS. he is HUMBLE. he COMMUNICATES. he doesnt let me go to sleep while im still upset. he doesnt make me feel like im hard to love. he is my PEACE and chaos and my HOME.