I attended university in my hometown so my first time living away was when my boyfriend and I moved across the country to a big city. It didn’t take long until the relationship became strained (at least to me — I think he thought everything was fine). We had an apartment together i...
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One of the stories was similar to a relationship I had lived. A man and woman loved each other. The man pushed the woman away harshly for reasons she couldn’t understand. Come to find out, he was trying to protect her from him. And he was also afraid that she wouldn’t love him ...
In other words, as is now widely accepted and the many thousands of people who use tinted lenses and coloured overlay products would testify, reading against a coloured background tinted to suit an individual’s preference can move the cognitive ease dial from “strained” to “easy”. And ...
In other words, what do you think you know about China? In a deep, true sense. And what are the areas of your knowledge about China where the theses are tentative or shifting? Andrew: Thank you for putting the question in that way, because it is true that I’m still a student of ...
Not that this languorous 133-minute film is short of room, as the push-pull dynamics of its central relationship are stretched and repeated past the point of tension or interest — toward a final act that would be easily seen coming even without some strained literary signposting. Editor Ann...
Relationships can feel strained when you are neither confident in yourself nor feel personal self-worth. This is when you might feel overly dependent on a relationship, have low self-esteem and experience anxiety. So, what can you do when you feel yourself slipping into this pattern of ...
Karen walks into the other room, and Matt takes the ice off long enough to growl a few “friendly” words my way. “You’re going to pay for this.” He glances toward the door Karen went through before glaring at me and flopping his head back down. His nose is bulbous and still ...
“To promote institutions and forces that, through democratic means, seek to make the world safe for diversity.” Thus Mandela wrote the very words that Kennedy had uttered on this very campus. I repeat: “To make the world safe for diversity”. In 2011, I had the privilege of being app...
For example, one pastor thought my definition missed the mark because sin is more about being in “wrong relationship” with Jesus, but that seems to me to be a distinction without much difference. I’m not sure how one can be in right relationship with Jesus—or one’s wife for that ...