Dating
The Glare of Ghost Street
The rain was a cold, constant whisper, a thousand tiny accusations hitting the asphalt. It didn’t let up. Just this endless, soft drumming, washing over everything, blurring the edges of a city that never really slept, just sagged into a kind of tired stupor. I watched it pool in the cracks of the sidewalk, each puddle a shattered mirror, catching the smeared smears of neon from the dive bar, the pizza joint, the flashing vacancy sign of the motel that always smelled faintly of disinfectant and stale regret. Red, blue, sickly green, all twisting and shimmering in the black water. Looked like blood in some places, bruising in others.
By HAADI23 days ago in Confessions
I Married for Safety—and Slowly Disappeared. Content Warning.
Evelyn stood at the edge of the marina, breathing in the crisp, pine-scented air of the Canadian coast. It felt sharper—more alive—than the vanilla-scented stillness of the house waiting for her back in Maple Bay.
By hiba abo shawish24 days ago in Confessions
The Shard Below
The cold seeps into my bones quicker these days. Not just the ocean cold, though God knows there's plenty of that down at six hundred feet. No, this cold is older, colder. It's in the marrow, a reminder of what I saw, what I did, what I *didn't* do. I'm too old for this, my hands shaking even before I clip the lines, but I keep coming back. Gotta keep coming back.
By HAADI26 days ago in Confessions
The Devotion Experiment
Devotion, as a human behavior, has historically been examined through moral, religious, or relational frameworks. In these contexts, devotion is often described as a virtue or obligation. This study departs from those traditions by approaching male devotion as an observable phenomenon, rather than a prescribed ideal.
By Ariana Hunter27 days ago in Confessions
The Gardener's Sin
Elias kept to himself, always had. The old house, tucked away at the edge of town, became a silent fortress, a shell around the strange, pulsating heart of his obsession. Most folks figured he was just eccentric, a man who preferred dirt to company. They didn't know about the garden. Couldn't imagine it.
By HAADI27 days ago in Confessions
The Weight of White Silence
The snow fell like ash, thick and quiet, eating every sound the city usually made. It was past two in the morning. Arthur stood by the kitchen window, a mug of cold coffee forgotten on the counter. His breath fogged the glass, a ghostly smear against the endless white. Outside, the streetlights cast long, distorted shadows of snow-laden branches, and the world was utterly, unnervingly still. Not a car. Not a dog. Just the whisper of flakes hitting the pane, a sound so soft it only emphasized the hollow space inside his skull.
By HAADI28 days ago in Confessions
She don’t like you
She don’t like you — and that truth feels dangerous, raw, unsettling. It hits you in the chest before it settles in your mind. You hear it, and something inside you snaps awake. I know. I was you. Chasing. Hoping. Giving. Trying to earn affection that never came. I learned the hard way that women not liking you isn’t about your worth — it’s about a deeper game you didn’t know you were in. A game about value, identity, attraction, and where real loyalty actually comes from. Strap in. This is the truth that changes everything.
By Randolphe Tanoguem29 days ago in Confessions
How People Are Creating Healthier Relationship Models
There is a substantial change in relationships in the modern world because individuals are more concerned with emotional comfort rather than social standards. Couples are actively constructing relationships that foster mental health, personal development, and emotional intimacy instead of using old templates that are both obligatory and tradition-driven. This change indicates a wider interpretation of the idea of healthy relationships as the means of making life more fulfilling. People desire healed love, not hurt love. They want relationships that are based on trust, sincerity and encouraging each other.
By Kellee Bernierabout a month ago in Confessions
Ways To Maintain Romance In Busy Everyday Lives Easily
Romance plays a very important role in maintaining a happy and satisfactory relationship. Couples can turn to work, duties and schedules when they are in their hectic daily lives and neglect intimacy and bonding. Romance helps in making the relationship as emotional as possible, builds trust and keeps the relationship alive. Understanding its importance encourages the partners to make deliberate attempts to cultivate love despite the busy schedules. Romance does not necessarily have to be dramatic in nature, little consistent demonstrations of love, care and gratitude can have enormous influence on relationship satisfaction and guarantee that emotional ties are maintained with ease as the relationship progresses.
By Stella Johnson Loveabout a month ago in Confessions
How To Grow Together As A Happy Romantic Couple
Being a romantic couple also implies the development on a personal level and on the level of a partnership at the same time. It entails cultivating individual growth and encouraging other people in their ambitions, aspirations, and emotional status. Growing couples develop a deep trust, intimacy and respect base in their relationship. Comprehending the need to experience mutual growth helps partners invest in interpersonal and personal growth. Curiosity, learning through failures, and sharing successes help the couples to have an active and satisfying relationship that gets stronger with time. Efforts to grow are now mutual and not a sequence of individual endeavors.
By Stella Johnson Loveabout a month ago in Confessions
