“That is why self-justification is more powerful and more dangerous than the explicit lie. It allows people to convince themselves that what they did was the best thing they could have done. In fact, come to think of it, it …
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Two recent blog posts are coming together in my mind to form the idea of micro-singlism, the seemingly innocent forms of discrimination against singles that are all around us. Those messages that tell us we’re less than when we don’t …
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After writing about the luxury of mental health, I kept asking myself: Why do I want counseling? While I had been in a coupled relationship recently, I had trouble with emotional regulation, especially regulating anger. Now that I was no …
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You might’ve wondered what happened reading a line in my last post. Yes, I was in a coupled relationship over the past year or so, a non-traditional one trying out solo-poly (and my troubles had little, if anything, to do …
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I am filled with anger and don’t know what to do with it. I am tired of being told to drop below the anger to feel my pain. I have cried enough! I want justice! I want change! It is …
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By Lisa Arnold, Rachel Buddeberg, Christina Campbell, and Bella DePaula Authors listed alphabetically by lastname Cross-posted at Onely.org and Psychology Today “White privilege” and “male privilege” are familiar concepts in our cultural conversations. There is, however, another vast swath of …
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