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If Someone Doesn’t Really Care About You, They’ll Show These 7 Unexpected Signs (opens the original)
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I read an interesting study about what happened to relationships after Hurricane Katrina.Researchers interviewed 40 lowincome women who survived the storm and asked what happened to their marriages and relationships after everything changed.<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3486647/#:~:text=others%20reported%20that%20their%20relationships%20grew%20stronger%2C%2
5 Things That Happen When You Spend Too Much Time Alone (opens the original)
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Friedrich Nietzsche spent much of his adult life in relative isolation, physically ill and increasingly detached from ordinary social life.Blinding headaches that kept him in darkened rooms for days. Deteriorating eyesight so bad he could barely read his own writing. Moving from boarding house to boarding house across Europe, mostly alone, existing on a diet of crackers and water and whatever was cheap.In all that quietness, in all that solitude, he wrote some of the sharpest insights into human
People Who Don’t Have Many Friends Share These 6 Personality Traits (opens the original)
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Sometimes people don’t have friends because they treat everyone badly. Some people are exhausting to be around and eventually everyone figures it out.But, there are people who don’t have a big circle for an entirely different motive.They notice too much.They think too much.They remember how people made them feel.And after enough disappointing friendships, they stop believing that having a lot of people around automatically means having good people around.Look at someone surrounded by twenty peop
If These 9 Questions Feel Safe To Ask, Your Relationship Has Real Emotional Depth (opens the original)
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I think one of the easiest ways to misunderstand a relationship is to measure its depth by how long two people have been together.Ten years.Twenty years.Forty years.People look at the number and assume they must know each other by now.Maybe they do.Just because you know what annoys them or which side of the bed they sleep on, doesn’t mean you know the person sleeping beside you.True intimacy is a little more than knowing another person’s habits.It is in the questions that people feel safe asking
People Who Are Morally & Ethically Weak Usually Say 8 Phrases In Casual Conversation (opens the original)
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The majority of people see themselves as more moral than the average person. This “better than average effect” has been demonstrated across many studies: people generally believe they’
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