If a guy truly likes you, but for personal reasons he needs to take things slow, he will let you know that immediately. He won’t keep you guessing, because he’ll want to make sure you don’t get frustrated and go away.

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while.

So, I play in a band. It's a really underground band. Super underground. Very underground. Like, we don't even actually play.

Drinking, eating, shopping, revenge, rebound sex, drugs or whatever your poison may be will number the pain - but that's all.

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly.