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Callow youth,  driven by hormones and instinct  is a basic animalistic survival mechanism. It is how many young people mutually meet the person they, by accident or intentional choice, pro create with. Boy sees and meets girl,  girl sees and meets boy. Boy in Nighclub, Girl in pub, Meet at work, On holiday  On the dance floor Off their tits, drunk,  borrow a cup of sugar from a neighbour, browse tinder  on line and intentionally hunting  for a hook up or directly looking for a mate. Why?  Ask your self why? The answer does NOT really matter. Someone compatible to share time with. Awesome!  Someone you THINK you fall in love with…  Superficial  Reasons attached  Superficial basic instinct attached  Lust attached  All ok, all included in one benign universe!  Then once hooked up,  once secure, once “for love fallen”  Then what?  Get on with it…  Share bills, share rent, share mortgage, share dat...

  In a world where the consumption of alcohol  has become a rite of passage,  a sober lifestyle may sound  strange to some.  But the reality is  that an alcohol-free lifestyle  can offer many benefits -  from increased emotional  and physical wellbeing to deeper more  meaningful relationships.  From learning to express yourself  and your thoughts more honestly  to evolving your way of life,  an alcohol-free lifestyle is  empowering.

via mindfulmft "I’m not talking about one offs, I’m talking about agreements (spoken or not) where couples avoid disagreements or conflict of any kind to keep the peace and likely avoid the things that are coded as stressful or threatening. Agreeing to never disagree is one of the ways that a couple can maintain pseudo-intimacy. It’s a tricky one, for sure, because on the surface it looks and feels quite lovely. But avoiding it blocks us from intimacy. It blocks us from leaning in and understanding more about the self and more about the other. Never disagreeing can block growth, expansion, and a deep sense of connection that comes on the other side of navigating confronting things. Hang with me here. Sometimes we do this because conflict is coded as dangerous, scary, or not worth it. Maybe we grew up in a family system where members were high conflict without any resolution. Maybe a parent or sibling was abusive. Maybe what happened during and after conflict is something we...