Taking Your Time vs. Wasting Your Time

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We’re all told there are certain things you don’t talk about on a first date. Sex, politics, exes, marriage and kids. And granted, on a first date it may be a bit much. But especially for women, we’re actively discouraged from sharing what we really want in life with a guy out of fear of “scaring him off”. But you know what? At some point taking your time turns into wasting your time. And before you know it, you’re 6 months in with somebody who has very different ideas about what life in the upcoming few years should look like than you.

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Easy New Year’s Resolutions

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2020 was an absolute shitshow, but we have good hopes for the new year. However, so as not to test 2021 as much, we will be making no “Come at me 2021” posts and will keep our New Year’s resolutions as easily attainable as is humanly possible. This should also help you in not throwing all your good intentions out halfway through January along with your dying Christmas tree.

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Relationships with an Expiration Date: what now?

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If we were to believe Hollywood tropes, we’ll all meet somebody sooner or later who makes us wonder how we ever lived life without them and we’ll ride off into the sunset together and live happily ever after. But what happens when you meet somebody, fall for them, and then come to the realization that your relationship has an expiration date?

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Enough With the Judgment Already

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Sometime last week I was with a group of friends and we walked past a new apartment building with really big windows. One of them commented on how it’s a matter of time before someone forgets to properly close the drapes and we’ll be face to face with some people who are mid-smash. And while, yes, that’s true, it got me thinking on how we should really just let each other live.

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Preparing for 30

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I’m getting a bit personal on this one. I’m about to turn 30 and figured I’d take some life-altering lessons and gather them here rather than in a little notebook. So here’s a little list of lessons, events and other important stuff that I’ve learned and gathered in these three decades. Most of them in the last one.

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