First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.

Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.

Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.

Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.