thoughts &
notes

I've noticed in conversations with people lately that there is a common theme: the fear of not having enough money. That is, in this moment, there is enough. However, there is a fear that funds are running low. This fear leads to thoughts about how the future will bring more expenses than income, and those thoughts lead to a deeper fear and a heaviness that comes with it. The thing is that these thoughts and feelings of heaviness and fear of not having enough put us into a su

In the last post, Courtship to Couch , we explored how couples seeking comfort—or relief from the energy required for courtship—often slip back into habitual patterns of self-entertainment that quietly exclude the relationship itself. On one level, this can be understood as a form of familiarity. The couple feels secure. They believe they’ve “put in the work,” and now they can relax. This type of familiarity does not inherently breed contempt. But left unchecked, it can. Ther