Andrea’s Reviews > Love and Other Brain Experiments > Status Update

“relationships require communication and compromise and change. You can love someone, all their marvelous and flawed sides, but sometimes you also need them to change their stubborn ways, even if it’s just by an inch. You mess up, and you’re lucky if someone tells you and invites you to do better the next time. That’s love. Because it’s the way you build things that last.

“I can’t rationalize my way through life when sometimes it just is the way it is—messy, and full of surprises, good and bad.”

“You can be your own person and have goals in your life and in your career and still want to share them with someone else”

“and think about how each time I’m vulnerable with him, he makes me feel like it’s a good thing.”

“What’s more loving than telling someone you accept them the way they are? Annoying quirks, and all? That it doesn’t matter if they hate public speaking, that they cannot figure out emojis for the life of them, that they use scientific discussions as a way to ignore their feelings? Because you love them anyway”