One of the many downsides to investing in parasocial relationships is that none of your actual social relations are going to want to hear that much about it.
Especially if, like me, you're not even keeping up with the times so you're mostly excited about things that happened to people you don't actually know 10 years ago....
(at least my interest in people that goes back more than 20 years can be reclassified as 'historical'. Follow me for all the hottest outdated David Tennant and Kit Marlowe gossip!)
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.
Helps in naming of certain groupings of islands, although it might be seen as a controversial groupings for some…
“An Euler diagram is a diagrammatic means of representing sets and their relationships. They are particularly useful for explaining complex hierarchies and overlapping definitions. They are similar to another set diagramming technique, Venn diagrams. Unlike Venn diagrams, which show all possible relations between different sets, the Euler diagram shows only relevant relationships…”
If your partner won’t peel an orange for you, you need to find someone else. That could be the takeaway of a popular and very unscientific test on TikTok. Vox’s Alex Abad-Santos talks to an expert about what this true love litmus test is really all about. Not so surprisingly, “An entire intimate relationship can’t be boiled down to what a partner does or doesn’t do with an orange,” says Alexandra Solomon, a psychologist and author who teaches at Northwestern University and specializes in relationships. https://flip.it/ytgay4 #Culture#TikTok#TrueLove#Relationships
“Honey, is everything OK? You smell a little upset.” Live Science explains how scents are not only important in our relationship to food and the natural world. They also play a role in how we communicate with people we know. https://flip.it/B.-44T #Science#Humans#Smell#Relationships
💔 Alzheimer's 💔
After time spent worrying when you receive the confirmation you have been dreading your heart will break.
❤️ Know it's normal to grieve the loss you are facing.
❤️ Know it's alright to feel sad
to mourn,
to cry.
❤️ It won't be the last time you feel this sorrow.
❤️ Watching your loved one slowly fade into a world the two of you will no longer share is a lonely feeling.
❤️ You will grieve the loss of familiar intimate moments. #Alzheimers#Dementia#Aging
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❤️ Know that it is alright to cry.
❤️ You don't have to pretend to be strong.
❤️ Find something that brings you comfort and peace and practise being kind to yourself.
❤️ Hold onto the memories of the love your partner has shown you and reflect that love back towards them
❤️ Remember, it's alright to feel the loss..and it's normal to mourn.
❤️ You are not alone.
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