“You’ve gone full Rapunzel,” my friend teased, half-laughing, half-concerned. “Are you ever coming down from that tower?”

She meant it playfully, but the image stuck. A woman in a tower, wrapped in quiet, choosing solitude not as punishment—but as medicine. For me, stillness has been a way to re...

What True Love Actually Looks Like (Spoiler: It’s Not a Montage)

We grew up on slow-motion kisses, dramatic airport chases, and rain-soaked declarations. Hollywood taught us that love is supposed to feel like a climax—loud, chaotic, and impossibly perfect (I still love watching those movies).

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I saw a TikTok yesterday. A woman stood in front of her bathroom mirror, mascara smudged, holding a sticky note that read: “I am still worthy.” She whispered it like a secret. The caption said: “Day 37 of loving myself after betrayal.” It had 2.3 million views.

There’s a whole genre of these now...

Why Divorce Is So Common—and Why I Still Believe in Love That Lasts

I was having coffee with a friend recently—one of those slow, soul-rich conversations that starts with caffeine and ends with a question that lingers long after the mug is empty.

She’d met someone new. They were getting married...