Status Updates From Conversations on Love

Because if being in your own company is fine on a Monday and a tragedy on a Saturday, the problem is not the objective fact of being alone, it’s the story you’re telling yourself.

Although you have to work on a relationship, you shouldn’t have to work on convincing someone to love you.

Romance is finding ways to show someone they’re appreciated. (…)
Love doesn’t disappear when you aren’t quiet and perfect.

I still struggle with articulating my needs. (…) Believing that I deserve love is a work in progress for me.