And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.

(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.