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Married Couples Reveal How the Romance is Going

They say that once you get married, the romance is dead. The sizzle is gone. The heat is cold. But of course, that’s not everyone’s experience, and you’d hope it wouldn’t be yours. Obviously it’s expected you’ll settle in a bit as you get older. Our bodies change, our drives change, our minds change. But...

People Reveal the Things They’ve Learned From Parents’ Relationships

It’s funny the things we learn from our parents. They try to teach us lessons explicitly, of course, with varying degrees of success, but a lot of what we learn – and this is not realized until adulthood – comes more from just watching them. Whether leading by example or providing a class in what-not-to-do,...

10 Unintentional Lessons Our Parents Taught Us

If you’ve ever had the misfortune of being close to someone who’s a theatre nerd, they’ve probably bothered you at some point about how great the musical Into the Woods is. It’s a heady sort of show – full of philosophical musings and complex human contradictions, told through the lens of interlocking fairytales and what...

People Reveal What Sisterly Love is Really All About

I have two sisters. I’m right in the middle – spaced an even 2 years apart. Suffice it to say I spent a lot of my childhood getting yelled at for playing Barbie “wrong.” But sisterly love can be a powerful thing – as these anonymous folks will tell with their real life stories. 14....

12 People Who Gave Their Partners Second Chances After They Cheated Share What Happened

Maybe someone in my past has cheated on me or maybe they haven’t. I’ll never know… But I do know that some people out there give their significant others second chances after they’ve done the unthinkable… But what happens after that…? What happened after you gave your cheating partner a second chance? AskReddit users shared...

17 Hobbyists How They Can Tell When Someone Is New To The Fold

There’s nothing like finding a hobby you really love; one that resonates and keeps you fulfilled and busy when you need exactly that. And after you’ve been doing something for awhile, you can forget what it was like to be new yourself – which is exactly why newbies stick out like a sore thumb. These...

Why Quentin Tarantino Says He Won’t Share A Penny Of His Fortune With His Mother

For some people, childhood was an idyllic time full of magic, the freedom to explore the world, figure out who you wanted to be, all with endless support from the adults in their lives, no matter who that might have been. For way too many kids, childhood wasn’t idyllic at all, and the lessons they...

13 Times Pixar Movies Went Above And Beyond

Anyone who loves Disney and Pixar movies knows that when it comes to details, these animators and filmmakers leave no stone unturned. They think of everything, it seems, and the result is an experience that usually hits every single mark. Even if you know all of that, though, there’s a good chance these 13 details...

Is Splitting The Check Always The Most Fair Way To Go?

Since the beginning of time – or at least, way back when people started to dine out with friends – people have been “going dutch” or splitting the check, where everyone pays their fair share for their meal and drinks. But is their “fair share” really always fair? People on the internet have been going...

6 Sensational Facts About Synesthesia

Do you have synesthesia? The thing is, this diagnosis is so rare and honestly so little understood that you might actually have it and not know there’s a word for it. Basically, it means people whose senses work in tandem in a unique way, like being able to taste smells or see sounds. 6. Being...

13 Too-Real Posts About Living With Anxiety

I have to think that, after the last several years, there are more and more people out there who know what it’s like to live with anxiety. There are also those of us who have lived with it for years, and yeah – it’s real and it’s rough at times. If you’ve lived with anxiety...

12 Posts That Will Validate Your Social Anxiety

Honestly, y’all, I don’t know how people are managing to not have social anxiety these days. Are they just super chill? Don’t watch the news? Have bunches of money? All three? For the rest of us, anxiety is a daily bit of business, and so at least once we read these 12 posts we’ll feel less...

11 Posts That Will Make Your Social Anxiety Take A Break

Ok, ok, maybe I oversold it with the title, because we all know that social anxiety never takes a break – and if it does, you make plans that you inevitably end up regretting later. And if you get that rambling mess of words, you’re definitely in the right place, and these 11 posts are...

14 Epically Un-Romantic Dating App Messages

When you think about messages you get on a dating app a couple of possibilities probably come to mind. The variety where they try to woo or impress you, for one, and you know. The inappropriate kind of course. What you might not realize is just how bad some people are at being romantic, and...