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

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

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

I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.

Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.

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.

If you are being shuffled around, then you should feel shuffled around.