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'My Boyfriend Says Kind, Reasonable Things But Still Won't Reciprocate!'

Listen to what he's not saying.

Heather Havrilesky
Dec 28, 2022
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Blue (1959) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Polly,

I have to tell you about the dumbest little argument about travel. The truth is that it doesn’t feel dumb to me, but I have spent much of the past three years since the start of the pandemic trying not to sweat the small stuff, sweating anyway, and then feeling guilty about the puddles of sweat at my feet.

I am in a r…

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