love & the memory of it. by Jay Hopler. spook not at the shook world w/ all its viruses & murder hornets instead that summer evening call to mind when you drove alone over iowa the light in the ...

Shutting Out Love After Being Hurt. When other people hurt us, it’s easy to close ourselves off from connecting with people in the future. By building steel armor around our hearts, ...

He begins his engrossing new collection “The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write” (Norton) with achingly honest pieces about how gun violence has affected his family.

Psychologist Walter Riso also warns: "We suffer too much for love, and it shouldn't be that way." In his book "Loving You So Much, I Forgot About Myself," he reflects on how to have a healthy love.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a woman who, a little while ago, got a girlfriend, “Darlene.” After meeting her, I thought that was what love felt like. But my old (bisexual) friend “Michelle” has me ...

And I couldn’t really even consider something being love if it isn’t safe. And I couldn’t consider a place in the world in which I felt I could be safe if I was all alone.