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Why People Who Were Never Chosen Will Have a Hard Time Choosing You
We may be far into a relationship before a somewhat puzzling and difficult realisation starts to dawn on us: we’re…
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Partners Who Punish You for Loving Them
We might think that what everyone longs for is love, and that the natural response to being loved would be…
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Self-Knowledge
People Who Are Missing a Sense of Self
One of the odder features of life is that, without there being too many significant outward signs of the problem,…
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Self-Knowledge
On Mocking the Superstitious
Rational people are used to being (at least in private) distinctly merciless in their mockery of the superstitious: the cohort…
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Relationships
The Best and Worst Ways to Be Left in Love
Being left by someone who once loved us – and whom we still adore – has to count among the…
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Self-Knowledge
When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them
There’s a familiar expression that captures a deep psychological truth: ‘when people tell you who they are, believe them’. What…
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