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Whether you're solitary by choice or simply unlucky in love, being single is complicated.
The Invisible Army of Men Becoming Kings
There’s a lot of noise online right now—hot takes, finger‑pointing, spirals of frustration—about the state of men, masculinity, and the absolute circus many women have had to endure. The rhetoric goes something like: Where are the good men? Where are the protectors? Why aren’t good men stepping up and knocking the toxic ones out of the way? Why aren’t men saving us from the men who are ruining everything?
By THE HONED CRONE2 months ago in Humans
When ‘Almost’ Broke My Heart
There is a special kind of pain in almost. Almost is that space between hope and heartbreak, between possibility and reality, where your heart hangs in the balance and sometimes, just sometimes, it shatters. I know because I have been there. I have loved someone in a way that made me believe in forever, only to realize that forever wasn’t mine to keep. Almost broke my heart, and it took time, tears, and courage to learn how to survive it.
By Kashif Wazir2 months ago in Humans
The Text That Ended Everything
It arrived on a quiet afternoon, a notification that seemed harmless at first. I didn’t know it then, but that single text would change everything. The words were short, precise, and final — the kind that leaves no room for argument, no space for negotiation, no hope for repair. It felt like a punch I couldn’t see coming, a sudden storm that tore through the calm I had built around myself. That message didn’t just break my day — it broke a world I thought was unshakable.
By Kashif Wazir2 months ago in Humans
Why do women cheat? 6 facts no one will tell you
It’s still a widely held stereotype that men cheat more often than women. But they are not as innocent as we previously thought because women want sex too. Good sex. While they prefer to enjoy it with their partner, that doesn’t mean they cheat any less than we men.
By Tarek Rakhiess2 months ago in Humans
Tobacco is projected to kill 1 billion people in the next century.. AI-Generated.
The Staggering Projection: Why Tobacco is Poised to Kill One Billion People This Century Imagine a single habit wiping out one billion lives over the next hundred years. That's the grim forecast for tobacco use. Each year, smoking claims about eight million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. If nothing changes, those numbers stack up fast into a century-long nightmare.
By Story silver book 2 months ago in Humans
Signs of a Toxic Relationship: How to Recognize the Danger Before It’s Too Late. AI-Generated.
Physically as well as emotionally and psychologically, a toxic relationship can be quite damaging. Many people wait until it's too late to see the warning signs. Toxic relationships can occasionally turn into severe abuse that can even be lethal. This article explains why toxic relationships are harmful, outlines the warning signs of one, and offers advice on what to do if you or someone you know is in one.
By Diana Crooks2 months ago in Humans
How to Avoid Misunderstandings in Global Love
Falling for someone who lives in another country is joyful, exciting and filled with strength of new found emotion. But the wonder of worldy love also brings its cornucopia of challenges, (often as misunderstandings based on culture, communication and expectations.) Simple words or gestures can communicate two different things when two people are from opposite worlds. What you view as caring the other may interprete as invasion. The sooner you can realize this, the less confusing and disappointing (and long) it will be for everyone involved.
By Tiana Alexandra2 months ago in Humans
When Affairs Turn to Love—What No One Tells You About the Aftermath
When an affair transitions from lust to love, it unleashes a wave of emotions that few anticipate. The moment passion transforms into genuine affection, the affair no longer feels like a secret thrill—it becomes a life-altering connection that challenges everything we thought we knew about love, loyalty, and moral boundaries.
By Bloom Boldly2 months ago in Humans
Incentivized Abandonment
Marriage was once a covenant that joined two lives in responsibility and perseverance. It required sacrifice from both, patience from both, and accountability from both. Today, marriage has been redefined by culture and rewritten by law. The covenant has been reduced to a contract, and the contract now rewards abandonment more than endurance. People no longer ask what it takes to stay. They ask what they can gain by leaving.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
Taught to Expect, Not to Honor
Modern society has trained women to expect everything and to honor nothing. They are raised to know what they want but not to know what they owe. They are told to list their standards but never to build the strength required to meet someone else’s. The result is a generation fluent in demands but illiterate in duty. Love cannot survive when one side learns only to expect while the other learns only to give.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
The One-Way Street of Modern Love
Modern relationships were supposed to be built on equality, but what we call equality has become one-sided. Men are taught to give, to serve, to protect, and to love unconditionally. Women are taught to expect those things and to measure a man’s worth by how perfectly he provides them. Men are conditioned to earn love. Women are conditioned to receive it. The result is not partnership but imbalance—a one-way street where the traffic of sacrifice flows in only one direction.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
