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Reflections on developing relational and emotional literacy through the lens of two significant relationships in my young adult life.

Softening is resistance. It is a position we choose, an attitude we embody, that extends the knowledge that we belong to each other in spite of difficulty.

In January 2018, I stopped attending church. There were many reasons for this, but mainly I did this to create space in my life for a deeper kind of love.

Purity culture is a term that people mainly use to describe the messages, events, and effects of the abstinence campaigns in the 1990s and early 2000s.