"You can't control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond to it."
— Unknown

Life can be hard. Sometimes it feels like one bad thing happens after another. You lose a job. A relationship ends. Someone you love gets sick. Money gets tight. And after a while, all that pain changes ...

"We accept the love we think we deserve." – Stephen Chbosky

You have been lonely for so long, it does not even hurt the same way anymore.

At first, it ached. It burned. It made you cry in the car and stare at the ceiling at night.

But now? It just is.

You don’t fight it. You don’t question it. Y...