Our need for love and connection is not just romantic or fanciful?
Our need for love and connection is not just romantic or fanciful; and it's not just the result of immense social pressure to achieve coupledom as a badge of adulthood or maturity (though these pressures are REAL).
Our need to feel connected is *primal*. But there is no way to completely avoid the pain of uncertainty that relationship will confront us with - and that is because we are not meant to sacrifice growth for certainty.
Fear of uncertainty, of heartbreak, of the inevitability of loss - these are an essential part of the experience of relationship. They make us stretch and evolve and adapt into something greater than we were. If we persist, allowing our primal need for closeness and connection to guide us, painful experiences forge us into something greater, wiser, and infinitely more compassionate and loving than we were before.
Each heartache can makes us more qualified - infinitely more qualified - to love BIGGER, stronger, more fearlessly than before. And so, strangely, loss can make us greater...so that when we love again, we attract a FAR greater love than the ones we've known before. You can heal your heartache and move forward.
Poll: Do you set New Year’s resolutions?
🎉 2026 is almost here!
We’re curious ... how do you welcome it?
Do you set resolutions, follow special traditions, or just go with the flow?
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10.4% Yes! New Year, New Me
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20.1% Yes - but I rarely stick to them
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69.5% Nah - not for me
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