After I Do

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Maybe I need the truth more than I need to hear what I want to hear. Maybe there is almost never a time when you don’t need the truth. Or maybe it’s just that you need the truth the most at the times you think you don’t want to hear it.

Sometimes my mom speaks as if she’s a guest on Oprah. I think it’s because she spent twenty years watching guests on Oprah.

My mom does that too sometimes. And she has also been watching Oprah for I-don't-know-how many years now. But the thing is; guests on Oprah are most of the time (if not all the time) so interesting and insightful that everyone could use an "Oprah Guest Speaking" person in their lives.

And I think if you like your evening plans, you’re not allowed to regret what led you to them. I think that should be a rule.

“Isn’t it nice,” he says, “once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?”

Maybe it doesn’t matter if you need someone during the everyday moments of your life. Maybe what matters is that when you need someone, they are the one you need.

“Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to,”