If you’re the one always managing the mood, initiating the hard conversations, or holding the relationship together, this section is for you. Explore the invisible work women often do in love, and how to start handing it back.
For a long time, chemistry has been treated as the gold standard of romantic truth. If it’s instant, intense, magnetic, and your body reacts before your brain can catch up, it’s magic. We’ve been conditioned to believe chemistry is real and rare. That’s the narrative we’ve inherited from decades of love songs, rom-coms, and well-meaning …
Know that you’re not overdoing anything. You do need to establish a better boundary. Have you ever walked away from a conversation feeling small, confused, or as though you needed to apologize for simply being there? That feeling is often your body’s first whisper saying, “Something’s not right.” But instead of listening, many of us …