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Jul 6

Will They Come Back? The Six Books That Actually Answer the Question You’re Googling at 2am

Nobody writes for the person typing those four words into the dark. Most of the shelf sells you a strategy or a shrug. These six do…

Will They Come Back? The Six Books That Actually Answer the Question You’re Googling at 2am

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12h ago

Crush on a Coworker: I Could See His Desk From Mine, and I Got Most of It Wrong

From October 2017 he sat seven metres from me. What I would tell anybody with a crush on a coworker now, and what happened in the week the…

Crush on a Coworker: I Could See His Desk From Mine, and I Got Most of It Wrong

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1d ago

My Therapist Told Me About Herself Once. Two Years of Him Ended Over a Parking Ticket.

She told me in September, in about eighty words, and went straight back to what we had been talking about. For five weeks I thought it was…

My Therapist Told Me About Herself Once. Two Years of Him Ended Over a Parking Ticket.

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2d ago

A Woman in the Group Asked Whether She Should Stop Waiting. I Told Her No.

Her tenancy was up in June and her sister had a spare room in Darlington. I had my own reasons for wanting her to stay, and I wrote her…

A Woman in the Group Asked Whether She Should Stop Waiting. I Told Her No.

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3d ago

How to Stop Obsessing Over Someone: I Tried Everything Sensible First

In February 2019 I copied seven steps for how to stop obsessing over someone into the back of my work notebook and crossed one out as…

How to Stop Obsessing Over Someone: I Tried Everything Sensible First

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4d ago

I Kept a New Colleague Off His Projects for a Year. She Still Thinks I Was Looking After Her.

The reasons I wrote down were all ones a careful colleague would give. Last month, over coffee, she thanked me for that year again and told…

I Kept a New Colleague Off His Projects for a Year. She Still Thinks I Was Looking After Her.

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5d ago

Sophie Read Everything I Have Written About Her. She Asked Me to Take One Sentence Out.

I told her that I do not change these once they are up, and that I thought the sentence was true anyway, and then on the bus home I…

Sophie Read Everything I Have Written About Her. She Asked Me to Take One Sentence Out.

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6d ago

A Man I Hired Gave His Old Manager as a Referee. It Was Him.

His name sat on an HR form on my desk for eight working days before I rang him, and when I did, I asked him one question that was not on…

A Man I Hired Gave His Old Manager as a Referee. It Was Him.

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Nov 6

I Timed My Big Shop to His for Three Years. It Ended When the Self-Checkout Woman Came Over.

We were paired for conversation practice in a Spanish evening class, and he told me, in very bad Spanish, what he did on Saturdays. I did…

I Timed My Big Shop to His for Three Years. It Ended When the Self-Checkout Woman Came Over.

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Nov 5

How Long Does Limerence Last? I Have Had It Three Times, and Each One Ended the Same Way

The usual answer to how long does limerence last is eighteen months to three years. Mine ran about four years, then about four months, then…

How Long Does Limerence Last? I Have Had It Three Times, and Each One Ended the Same Way

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