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ASK MOLLY | Heather Havrilesky | Substack
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Ask Polly | Heather Havrilesky | Substack
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Sometimes this takes the shape of resistance: I decide a feeling or a situation is bad on the spot and start to fight back before I know what’s there. Other times, this takes the shape of discomfort and shame: I am feeling a new way, so something must be wrong .
Heather Havrilesky • Tolerating Unknowns Will Make You Stronger

That’s life in the suburbs: pretending that nothing is bothering you while you eat something shitty.
Heather Havrilesky • Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
I wanted a cross between a therapist and a cowboy.
Heather Havrilesky • Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
Freaking people out is sort of a side hustle of mine lately. I guess that’s what happens when a confident recluse moves to a smallish town and, after roughly a year of panicking about the move, starts to inflict her bad personality on the populace.
Heather Havrilesky • Hustle

No one wants to take the risk of caring deeply.