Saag Jaan's Twitter thread about the crucial things to consider before marriage went viral, and it's no wonder. So many folks can fall prey to the pain of realizations about their partners, that simply came too late into the game. You'd never want to find yourself married to someone, only to realize that if you'd had a few more eye-opening conversations about the heavier topics that really matter in the long run, you'd both have realized things just weren't going to work out. Maybe this list will help couples avoid those unfortunate moments.
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As you age, your sense of self changes, and you realize that your personality is based mostly on commercials and the fact that you used to have more cartilage in your knees. Aging starts at your first encounter with utter BS and continues with factors you didn't anticipate about adulthood, but in the end, you're better for it.
Poor dad is just trying to go around and spread the love and kindness, but every time he does so it inspires panic from the worried women in his house. Let's all just appreciate the dads out there that are trying their best, and unintentionally inspiring anxiety in their confused family members. Their hearts are in the right place.
This Tinder gem involves a dude writing a sonnet about a first love, for his new match. These heights might very well never be reached again. The fact that the dude composed a sonnet, and infused it with that raunchy hidden message is nothing short of a modern marvel.
In a recent trend, people have been sending random texts to their Number Neighbors, i.e. the stranger whose phone number is one digit higher or lower their their own. Mostly it's just people going "who is this don't talk to me" but other people are chill. Here's a guy who got waaaay deeper than you'd expect to get with a stranger. Unrelated, we're huge fans of that first typo right at the top.
These wholesome pure feels pull on the heart strings. This guy's story starts in on when he lost his parents as a 10-year-old, to a nasty drunk driver. From there, he was taken in by his uncle, and grew up battling a terrible sadness.
Fast forward to when he's 22-years-old, and still hasn't had a relationship with his girl, until his uncle takes him to a sandwich shop after he loses his job; and ends up meeting the love of his life in a chance encounter. His uncle plays quite the wingman, and even calls the girl on his behalf to get things in motion. This is one of those stories that you read nervously, with hope that nothing goes south, and amazingly...nothing does!
Gotta love weddings. Nothing says everlasting love like photoshopping yourself and your betrothed as centaurs. Y'know, for love. If not a half horse body, how about a genie? Maybe instead of photoshop, you'd like to throw some chickens in the air? We think these folks are onto something, and we'd like to see more people treat their weddings with more absurdity.
Twitter user @aleeyaderige, shared a powerful thread on how to help a loved one who's dealing with depression. She touches on many of the painful ins and outs of living with depression, and her thread went viral because of how many grateful people connected with what she'd written.
Communication is a very important part of every relationship, and a lack of it can lead to awkward and hilarious moments like this ex-girlfriend lease dispute. When two people aren't on the same page, one may end of throwing out the L word way too soon. Other times, the recipient might be unprepared to hear it and end up staggering on their words terribly. Anyway, relationships are often awkward and fraught with failure. Turns out there are a whole lot of ways to mess up an "I love you."
We do some mindless stuff in the name of love, or even, an innocent crush. There's just something that short circuits in the brain when you find yourself helplessly infatuated with that person that caught your eye. Then, if you're really unlucky, you take it a step further and make the kind of move that comes back to haunt you in the middle of the night, years later.
Brace yourself, the love-soaked gushiness is REAL in these stories of love. So much wholesome in this post, it might very well melt the iciest of hearts. That, or you are a-okay at moving forward on that forever alone lifestyle. I mean, hey whatever works for ya.
