It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.

You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.

Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.

You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.