Copious amounts of pina coladas and rum and coke.
/aspiring alcoholics.
Only way to deal with family parties?
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In a world that places an inordinate amount of value on heterosexual, we-only-need-one-another-forever-and-ever, marriage-type relationships, I think it’s important to challenge the notion that love means one thing and one thing only. Or that intimate relationships should look a particular way.
From personal experience, I know that one person isn’t meant to fulfill our every need and our every desire. No one can be your everyone. And yet we are told the opposite. The contemporary story of love, marriage, and family says that we are supposed to meet a soulmate and that person should to make us happy forever. That seems like a lot of pressure to me. It also seems like a great way to feel a constant sense of disappointment for the rest of your life.
From personal experience, I know that one person isn’t meant to fulfill our every need and our every desire. No one can be your everyone. And yet we are told the opposite. The contemporary story of love, marriage, and family says that we are supposed to meet a soulmate and that person should to make us happy forever. That seems like a lot of pressure to me. It also seems like a great way to feel a constant sense of disappointment for the rest of your life.
— Meghan Murphy (via acidinthewater)
Here’s the thing though.
I have absolutely no inclination to be here other than convenience.
What we value are on two different sides of a void that has been deemed uncrossable several times over.
So stop shouting at me from your edge and let me live peacefully on mine.
