Lindsay

“Attraction isn’t something that only happens once, with one person. It’s part of what drives humans. Our attraction to each other, to art, to food, to entertainment. Attraction is fun. So when you decide to commit to someone, you aren’t saying, ‘I promise I’ll never be attracted to anyone else.’ You’re saying, ‘I promise to commit to you, despite my potential future attraction to other people.’” I look at Clara. “Relationships are hard for that very reason. Your body and your heart don’t stop finding the beauty and the attraction in other people simply because you’ve made a commitment to one person. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re drawn to someone else, it’s up to you to remove yourself from that situation before it becomes too hard to fight.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“In a mother's love
the only heartbreak
is when they do
what you have prepared them for:
leave”
― Bunmi Laditan, Dear Mother Lib/E: Poems on the Hot Mess of Motherhood

“But based on how a common head cold transformed my husband from a thirty-five-year-old man to a ninety-six-year-old granny with malaria, I wasn’t sure he’d make it through one day with child.”
― Bunmi Laditan, Confessions of a Domestic Failure

“MOTHERHOOD HAS TAUGHT ME THAT LOVE IS NOT A FEELING IT IS A BURNING DESIRE TO TRY A LITTLE HARDER THAN I DID YESTERDAY”
― Bunmi Laditan, Dear Mother: Poems on the Hot Mess of Motherhood