Why We Hurt the Ones We Love Most
We perform our best selves for people who barely know us, while our worst selves emerge around those who know…
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Tag: psychology of relationships
Dangerous Questions
We ask dangerous questions because something in us craves the drama of potential devastation. Perhaps most perversely, we ask questions…
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The Secret Thoughts
We live in this strange collective isolation, each carrying the same bundle of human thoughts, each convinced we're uniquely flawed…
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Purpose Evolution: How Life Meaning Changes Across Decades
"Purpose evolves with age: exploration in twenties, stability in thirties, legacy in forties. Life’s meaning is a dynamic process, created…
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Parental Worry Explained: Why Love Feels Like Anxiety
Parents don’t worry out of fear, but because life is unpredictable. Parenting anxiety is love expressed through care, vigilance, and…
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Digital Aging: How Posting “Good Morning” on Facebook Made Me My Father
After posting “Good morning” on Facebook, I realized I’d become my father. The boy who once cringed at parents’ social…
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My Absent Grief
The cruel mathematics of absent grief: loving people whose mourning we'll never witness. Every relationship across generations plants seeds in…
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AI more humane than humans: imperfection as strength
If AI grows more empathetic than us—patient, unbiased, creatively moving—what remains human? This piece argues our edge is imperfection: struggle,…
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turning weaknesses into strengths: hidden powers of flaws
Our “worst” traits often hide rare abilities: restlessness can map new worlds, sensitivity makes art, introversion sees deeply, anxiety plans…
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Arranged vs Love Marriage: Expectations, Adaptation & Happiness
Arranged vs love marriage through the lens of expectation. When two strangers begin life together, every quirk is discovery; when…
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