rach!’s Reviews > Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar > Status Update

it’s august and i’m thinking of you as i read these pages but also of me. what drew me to you, what i learned from you, what i want, what i dream, and what i can gain from leaving you in the past as my life where you wish to stay

“so many tortuous runs in this life. don’t let a man who doesn’t love you be one of them” sighhhh brand new day and ms sugar are on my list… of things i gots to discuss in therapy because i am in fact tortured by it

i was keeping up with every email and then i started reading late at night and here we are. i started therapy again and this book feels like a hug. she talked about some dark stuff, also she wrote about sexual fantasies and se wrote a graduation speech (hours i wish i could rewrite mine) and she talked about religion and it all resonated so beautifully. i wish it was always that easy to find a silver lining in all

i personally think my heartbreak has made me a very annoying friend and have wondered how my friends who have endured heartbroken me for years must feel about it all.. this never ending cycle from someone that should probably know better? ik they’re tired and they always mean well and i value them for that. i also fear i am quick to cut people off
sex! it’s on everyone’s mind!!!

i guess it is best to be who you are authentically then to live a comfy life hiding yourself because rly ur not comfy at all, just trapped
everyone loves x but wants to suck z because it’s easy to make up fantasies about someone
i too loved a father who was no good to my mother and she was always kind regarding him to us while maintaining her boundaries and i love that and adore that about her

sometimes i like her bluntness and sometimes i find it crude
on the failing marriage story i do feel like long term monogamy can stunt you because i think my ideals for a relationship are rooted in my expectations when i was barely a teenager but was so lucky to be in love
on stuck, how grateful am i that the worst things to happen to me is to be heart broken time and time again, how lucky i am to have loved and lost