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There was a moment—probably around 1994—when boredom died. Like, officially. Quietly. Without a eulogy or a funeral. One day we were all sitting in cars with no music, staring out the window during road trips and inventing games like “count the cows.” The next, we had Game Boys. Or AOL chatrooms. Or eventually, the dopamine cannon that is your phone.
Grief is usually talked about in the context of loss—something tangible, something final. But some of the deepest grief people carry isn’t about what they lost…
It’s about what they never received in the first place.
It’s the ache of looking back on a childhood and realizing:
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There’s a common, quiet burden that many adults carry without even realizing it:
They became the emotional parent to their own parent.
They were the kid who learned to read the room like a radar.
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A few days ago, a friend texted me asking if I could review her daughter’s college essay. She’d been stressing over it, and they just wanted “another set of eyes.” Normally, I’d say yes—because I like to be helpful, because I like being the person people can count on. But this time, something stopped me.
We all know someone like this.
They walk into the room and instantly put people at ease. Conversations with them feel effortless. You don’t worry about saying the wrong thing or being judged. You feel seen—and strangely, a little more yourself.
It starts subtly.
You’re lying in bed next to someone you love. Maybe even someone you once obsessed over. The light hits their skin in that same familiar way. They reach for you. And instead of feeling excitement, or desire, or even warmth… you feel nothing. Or worse—you feel annoyed. Disinterested. Numb.
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A good marriage isn’t something that “just happens.” It’s not the result of chemistry, luck, or choosing the perfect soulmate. And it certainly doesn’t stay strong because of a wedding ring or a shared last name.
A good marriage is built—intentionally, consistently, and with a deep understanding that love is not a feeling to be chased, but a daily choice to be made.
Let me be clear right out of the gate: being friends with an ex isn’t inherently wrong. Life is complicated. People grow. Some relationships end amicably. Some co-parent. Some work together. Some share friend groups. I get it.
But if you’re dating someone who’s still friends with their ex—and I mean actual friends, not just polite at mutual events—it’s worth pausing and asking a simple question:
“Why?”
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Sunk Cost Analysisis a way of making decisions that ignores any costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered. These costs are known as “sunk costs.”
The key principle of sunk cost analysis is that only future costs and benefits should be considered in a decision, not past expenditures, since the latter cannot be changed and should not influence the rational assessment of a viable option.
Look, I’m not going to sugarcoat this. If you want to make any real progress in your life, in your career, in your relationships – you’re going to have to do some seriously uncomfortable shit. There’s no way around it.
For too long, you’ve probably been tiptoeing through life, desperately trying to avoid anything that makes you remotely uncomfortable. You stay in your cozy little bubble, never venturing outside of it, never truly challenging yourself. And where has that gotten you? Nowhere fast, I’d bet.
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