Love Shouldn't Feel Bad

Forget the red flags and pay attention to how you feel.

Untitled (1964) by Helen Lundeberg

I don’t write about sorting partners or friends into piles of good and bad very often for one obvious reason: It’s often more relaxing not to view the world through those reductive lenses. If you want to feel hopeful and open, it’s not always great to walk around with a map covered in steep cliffs, quicksand, and rip ti…