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" If a show is a critical success but a ratings flop, I assume that people are just championing the show because it looks cool to root for an underdog. "

Emily V. Gordon

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" Don't expect yourself to immediately love your stepchildren. In fact, you may hate them for a bit. "

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" I grew up in a town where there were no Muslims whatsoever, and there was not a lot of exposure. "

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" Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak. "

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" When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs for anyone else's and not relying on anyone else for even a smidgen of your happiness or well being. "

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" I always tell people, 'Take a class or volunteer.' It really helps you get out of your own little pocket of people you always see and gets you exposed to a new group of people. "

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" Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time. "

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" Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it's up to you how much that pain damages you permanently. "

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" I am fairly convinced that people plan destination weddings because they would actually like to elope but want to have given you the option to attend. "

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" Your life story is a gift, and it should be treated as such. "

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" If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed. "

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" Your wedding day is supposed to be your big day, and yet a lot of engaged couples find that instead of creating an event that will be important to them, they're dodging through a minefield of modern etiquette traps. "

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" Never marry because it seems like what you should do. "

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" Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it. "

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" In my experience as a therapist and as a friend, it seems that the majority of the breakup resources available are for women and not men. Women, who tend to be more vocal about their emotional struggles, are the squeaky wheel that gets the grease from friends, from online communities, from books, and from therapeutic approaches. "

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" No matter how you handle alcohol at your wedding, you will most likely be upsetting someone. "

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" I'm not an actress. I'm a writer. "

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" Don't sacrifice alone time with your spouse just because the kids seem needy. A united front requires adult time alone, so put it in the calendar and make it a priority. A house cannot stand on a shaky foundation. "

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" The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery to elation to relief to terror. "

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" Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture. "

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" Parents go to sleep early. This is universal. "

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" Everybody's got baggage, and not just the classic, 'Oh I have so much baggage,' but everyone comes with so much context, and you're not just dating a person: you're dating all their context, too. Part of relationships is negotiating each other's context. "

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" In some cases, newlyweds want so badly for things to be perfect that they ignore warning signs, both in themselves and each other. "

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" Balanced, passionate, grounded people are the ones whose careers are ultimately the most successful. "

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" Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little while. "

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" There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying. "

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" That's part of what a relationship is: you don't experience things in the same way. "

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" A lot of new stepparents fall into the trap of letting children disobey household expectations in order to gain favor with them. "

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" If you've experienced cheating in a new marriage, the real work is not obsessively combing through all the details of what happened, but rather figuring out if your relationship is worth saving. "

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