what IS love?
I think love is when you feel happy to see the person you love happy. That is how love looks like to me. :-D
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10, 2026
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09, 2026
makes a difference if I am honest *prayer hands emoji
It is true. . . I need to hold my toy rabbit. . . They are sitting askew (with legs crossed) on my crossed leg right now. Perhaps I will give him a massage in [...]
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04, 2025
splinters
I feel like I am going to have to jump one way or another. Sitting on the fence is giving me splinters. :-P The choice seems to be between opening up in both directions of [...]
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11, 2023
Winnicott transitional object in adult life
I find it very interesting that often when a particular long-term love interest finds its way back into my life I start reaching for my toy rabbit to cuddle. It is such an intuitive response [...]
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09, 2023
A fly in the ointment – real-life
Have you ever considered the way that social media (or any form of social interaction) on the interweb impacts your real-world social life? I Googled 'social media is making us antisocial' (or a near variant) [...]
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06, 2023
Feeling sad thoughts – self-compassion statements
Are you feeling sad today? I can empathise. I have been feeling sad lately too. Someone who had made me feel like they cared for me, left me suddenly and I have had feeling sad [...]
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10, 2022
Self-compassion for a crappy day
Do you ever have one of those crappy days when things go pear-shaped for whatever reason, and you are left in psychological pain? We all have those kinds of days sometimes. It is a part [...]
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05, 2020
Saying ‘sorry?’ – try ‘thank you’ instead!
Have you ever had the experience of someone pushing past you in the street, and them saying 'sorry', as they push past? Or have you ever experienced a situation in the world where someone needed [...]
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04, 2020
Thoughts on the impacts of enforced isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic
How are you going? It is an important question to ask during this very unusual and challenging time of the coronavirus pandemic and all the quarantine conditions that we are all subject to at the [...]
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03, 2019
Learning about relationship patterns through no contact
I think it is true that the time we waste on people who don't even like us, much less feel romantically interested in us, could be so much better spent on real life relationships that [...]