Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.