Break-ups ****ing suck. Period. There’s no other way to say it. They’re awful, unnecessarily painful, and are breeding grounds for resentment and petty anger. Both parties are just too sensitive or too wrought with too many feelings and...
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Words by Kathlene Masilongan Disclaimer: This article was written based on the perspective and experiences of the author and does not claim to speak for or represent anyone else other than herself. When I was in high school I had the whole of my...
You jump out of the car from a five-hour drive. You are greeted by the fresh summer air as you step out to kiss your mother you haven’t seen in so long. You see the new chime piece being blown by the wind at your terrace. You notice the wooden...
Dating is stupid hard. The amount of feelings involved + the chance that you’ll get hurt? Way too risky. And it sucks when one of you moves on from the other and there are still things lingering. It can turn from happy to sad real fast. And...
Sparking joy is what relationships usually do but it’s a veeery different story when they end. More often than not, we’re faced with a very difficult reality of crying, missing the other person, and trying to unlearn so many habits you...
Friendships are one of the most underrated kinds of relationships. I don’t mean this in the sense that they’re understated or less popular than other kinds of relationships. But they are undervalued. As much as people love having them, they...
According to a Feng Shui master in Ongpin, the pursuit of love and money are incompatible with each other. It’s not so much that love and money cannot coexist, but that the quest for one must always be prioritized over the other. So when we...
A lot of things can happen with someone you like, and one of the most crushing is being “friendzoned.” Simply put, being friendzoned is when someone doesn’t reciprocate any romantic or sexual feelings, and sees the other person only as a...
Words by: Miko Insame Featured Image from sofsea Images are screenshots taken from responses to our prompts A few weeks ago, the WIM team sent out this prompt on our social media. The reason why was because I was curious. Curious about how people...
During Valentine’s season, there’s always pressure for single people to find a date. It has become so prevalent that even these people question themselves on their status, as if it’s a sin to be alone. Sure, it’s great to have a date on...
It was perfect. A romantic valentine novel that could have sold millions. That was your life together. In the maddening chaos of life, you found someone. Someone who makes you smile by sending you crazy internet memes, someone who laughs at the...
One of the most enduring movies in Philippine cinema is One More Chance. And out of its many scenes, one of the most lasting is the one with the three-month rule. According to John Lloyd Cruz’s Popoy, a couple who breaks up must wait three months...
Valentine’s Day is one of the most contentious holidays of the year. People are usually divided over loving it or hating it. Some call it a fake holiday that only exists to drive consumerism. Others see it as an opportunity to celebrate love...
Ever wondered what sunrises and sunsets look like from different parts of the world or on days that you might have missed them? Have you ever thought about how other people feel when they capture them, or if we all see the same thing and yet, maybe,...
I feel that a constant guiding point of our culture has been the concept of utang ng loob. We Filipinos allow this sense of duty and obligation dictate the paths we take in life. More often than not this obligation is owed to our family, especially...
I think it has always been ingrained in Asian culture to be concerned with the image you project of yourself. The concept of ‘saving face’ is something that most of us can relate to — the need to save yourself from embarrassment or shame at...
Dating nowadays is stupid hard. While it’s so easy to connect with someone now, it’s just as easy to cut people out. Some of us have fallen victim to this unfortunate ease of being left behind. Some more than once, even! If you think...
I’ll admit, I used to hate resolutions. I was one of those people who’d go “you can make a resolution any time of year!” Now I see how the sense of ‘starting over’ is an important factor. (Also Read: We Asked...
There’s something about the new years that always makes us contemplative. It’s like compartmentalizing your life into days and months gives us more clarity. People often use that to think about new goals and new plans. But I think it...
One of the hardest parts of the year is looking back and thinking about everything that went badly. But it’s also one of the most important ones. To grow as people, we have to acknowledge our faults and what we did wrong — with the intent to...
While I think myself a very private person when it comes to people I have to interact with often, I am a serial oversharer with people I believe I’ll never meet again. It’s just so easy being able to spill everything to someone you never...
I want to start this off by disclaiming that I unabashedly stan Christmas. I would fight all the Halloween apologists on all the reasons that Christmas wins as the best holiday of the year. But it is only because I’m lucky that I am able to love...
Break-ups are never easy. Being broken up with feels awful because you’re used to the pattern of having someone to tell about your day and then remembering: Oh, right. But for some, being the one to break up is also difficult. Maybe you...
Whenever we travel, we always have to worry about our itinerary, our accommodation, ticket prices, and the pasalubong we have to bring home. The last part has become a high-pressure thing as friends, relatives, and officemates eagerly await the...
So. You’re single again. That’s okay. Maybe you’re overwhelmed with the number of people messaging you question marks and “what happened?” or whatever, that’s okay, too. It gets tiring having to re-open the wounds...