You don't have forever to assert yourself and set boundaries around the life you'd like to live. Until you learn to say no, you will feel like an incomplete self, a semi-person, and an imposter in your skin who's finding it hard to truly, deeply respect yourself. Learning to respectfully say no will save your mental health and life, literally. The harder the lesson seems, the more you need it.

Women know. We’ve been doing the hormone tango, riding the dragon since forever. We understand how it feels to not know this person yelling at someone we love for a conclusion about them we’ve conveniently made around 3 AM, or crying in your pasta because the beginning of “Up” is the most devastating thing in animation history, worse than Mufasa’s death.

There is nothing, and we mean nothing in this whole wide world, that in madness and magnificence measures with a person freshly in love, living the honeymoon phase. But how long does the honeymoon phase last and what to do if the sex goes sour once it ends?