Ron C

Joined December 2024

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Why Love Can’t Be Boxed Into a ‘Relationship’
You know, the more I think about it, the more I feel like the word “relationship” misses the point when people talk about love. Modern life has this way of turning love into something transactional, like an agreement between two parties for mutual benefit: we’re dating, we’re exclusive, we’re “in a relationship”… what even is that? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not coming at this from some cynical, anti-modernist angle. I just feel like calling love a relationship narrows something infinite down into something finite—a box that can be labeled, categorized, and judged on Instagram. And doesn’t that kind of kill the soul of what love is supposed to be?
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Why Love Makes Us Hold On
Love is a bit like quicksand, isn’t it? You don’t fall into it carefully. You don’t calmly decide to sink. One moment, you’re standing solid, confident, and sure of yourself, and the next, you’re pulled under with no warning, no way out. The harder you fight, the deeper you’re drawn. And when you love someone deeply, truly, you don’t just walk away — not really. You might tell yourself you want to go, that it’s too much, too painful, too exhausting. But unless they push you away, unless they shut the door behind you, lock it, and throw away the key, a part of you always stays. And that’s because love is its own force — unyielding, stubborn, eternal. It clings to you even when your logical mind keeps telling you to let go.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
When Heartbreak Feels Like a Stone on Your Soul
You know that feeling — when your chest physically hurts, like someone is pressing down with the weight of the world, a suffocating kind of heaviness that makes it hard to even breathe. They call it heartbreak, but that word feels so neat, doesn’t it? So… insufficient. Because when it happens, when someone you love is suddenly out of reach, it doesn’t feel like your heart is merely broken. It feels crushed. Like it’s been ground into dust under some immovable rock.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
The Heart's Quiet Sacrifice
I’ll be honest with you: love has this uncanny ability to wreck us in ways we don’t always expect. I mean, think about it — we walk into it with this big, open heart, full of hope, trust, and silly daydreams. But every time we’re hurt — whether it’s betrayal, rejection, or simply unrequited love — it feels like a piece of us just… disappears. Like we pour out one irreplaceable drop of ourselves each time the grief sets in. And we don’t even fully realize it’s happening until, one day, it feels like there’s nothing left to give.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
I don't like being single.
You know, I’ve always had this strange relationship with being single. Honestly, I don’t like it. I’ll say it outright because, sure, being single sounds empowering—freedom, independence, all that jazz—but for me? It often feels like this weird, lonely silence when I really crave someone to share moments with. Like, I can’t count how many times a random Wednesday night has me curled up on the couch, microwave popcorn in hand, watching some sappy rom-com and thinking, Why isn’t that my life right now?
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Happiness is Not a State; It’s an Illusion
Happiness. Even the word itself feels slippery, doesn’t it? Like something you’re always chasing but never really holding on to. We’re told to believe it’s this glorious, golden state of being — that elusive finish line we can cross if we work hard enough, accumulate enough, love enough, or just be enough. But what if it’s all a trick? What if happiness isn’t a place we can inhabit, but rather, an illusion we chase because we’re too scared to face life without it? I know — I sound cynical — but hear me out.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
The Wrong Notion That You Can Fall Out of Love
I’ve always felt that the idea of “falling out of love” is, in many ways, a cheap escape—an excuse. Perhaps it became a convenient concept in our fast-paced world, where even human emotions are treated like disposable paper napkins. But love, true love, the kind that shakes the soul and transcends fleeting passions, does not fade, nor does it end. The notion that love can vanish, can be outgrown, or tossed away like an old shirt, is not just wrong—it’s a denial of what love actually is.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Is love merely a consequence of habit and nothing else?
Is love just the slow-burning consequence of repetition? Is it a pattern of comfort that grows familiar over time, much like slipping on your favorite worn-out sweater or walking a familiar path in the woods? I ask myself this because, if I'm being honest, so much of love feels like habit. The way we wake up at the same time, share the same meals, swap the same goodnight rituals - it's all incredibly predictable, sometimes even dull. But are these routines the heartbeat of love itself? Or is love something larger and deeper, quietly using habit as its canvas to paint something infinite?
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
The Little Things That Capture a Man’s Heart
Love is a strange, beautiful thing. It sneaks up on you not always in grand, sweeping gestures, but in the small moments — the ones that seem ordinary yet leave an extraordinary mark on your heart. When a man falls in love, it’s rarely about something as simple as looks or status. It’s about the essence of a woman, the way she makes him feel, the way she carries herself, and the way she touches his life without even trying. It’s the little things — those layered, meaningful gestures and qualities — that create a love that feels profound and lasting.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Who Dated Older Women in Literature
There’s always something magnetic about age gaps in relationships, and in literature, this dynamic has produced some of the spiciest, most intriguing love stories. I’ve always been deeply captivated by how writers weave this theme — how they handle the interplay of youthful passion with seasoned experience, and what it reveals about the psyche, society, and the human condition.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
Why God Create Orphans
This is one of those questions that has likely torn through the hearts of countless believers and skeptics alike. How can a loving, all-powerful Creator allow innocent children to lose their parents? I’ve grappled with it myself — wrestled with God, shouted in prayer, cried in frustration. If God can do anything, why not stop this kind of suffering? Why didn’t He stop it in the first place? Orphans, of all people, seem like the purest victims of the brokenness in our world.
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans
120 Love Quotes to Let Him Know How You Feel
Love is powerful, beautiful, and sometimes downright impossible to put into words. We’ve all been there — you look at him, and your heart does its little dance, your cheeks get warm, and you feel all the butterflies. But then, when it comes time to express how much he means to you? The words get stuck. You want him to feel loved, but how do you even begin to capture all your emotions?
By Ron Cabout a year ago in Humans