I like to think that I have a healthy sense of self-worth. In fact, people have mistaken my sense of self-worth for overconfidence. So, you can imagine my shock when I started feeling insecure at some point in my relationship. I couldn’t believe it. I tried to deny it, but at some point, I couldn’t. …
Love & Relationships
“Why didn’t anyone warn me about this?” If you’ve ever heard this from a married woman, chances are she just discovered one of the hidden truths about marriage. It’s not that people didn’t try to warn her; it’s just that some lessons can’t be fully understood until you’re wearing the ring and figuring it out …
I have a colleague whose wife walks around like she has unlocked the cheat code to marriage. She’s always so calm and radiant and has that ‘I’m good thanks’ energy. I have a lot of admiration for her. Have you met wives like that? You know, the ones who can laugh off a petty argument …
As a kid, I never could have imagined there was anything my father feared. The man always made it look like he had everything under control, even in the toughest situations. So, when he told me things like, “Strong men don’t cry,” I believed, and I never cried. Not even when I was beaten in …
When you go on social media, there is so much marriage bashing and tales of bad marriages. I am not saying anything is wrong with that; people have a right to talk about their experiences without being invalidated. However, there are also a lot of marriages where the couples cherish each other and their marriage. …
We often find low self-esteem in men unforgivable, especially in relationship contexts, and I get it. But it is not always as ominous as we make it seem; I am speaking in terms of the man in question. He might not be a bad man in the sense of it, but he has just been …
Fun fact: When I was younger, I used to think the expression “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” was from the Bible. I came to find out it wasn’t, but I still consider it a very interesting statement. Like the Gen-Z peeps will say, “William Congreve was in his bag when he wrote …