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Stop Forcing People to Smile: It's Okay Not to Be Happy at Times

10/20/2016

By: Lanisha Porter

I've never been a fan of that "smile no matter how you are feeling" logic because consequently, that's asking people to suffocate themselves with a lie. We are human. We live through a series of complex emotions. Some days will invite sadness, happiness, irritability, fearfulness, hopefulness etc., but don’t just ask someone to pick happiness and parade it around each day in vibrancy. That would be being untrue to the human operating system.

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Being Quiet Isn't a Requirement to Be Loved

10/4/2016

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By: Lanisha Porter

You out of all people should be afforded the space to have a say in your relationship and how it goes. In a healthy relationship you should feel safe enough to speak up about how you feel, what you want, and what you need. In the case you are in a relationship and in fact do not get to have a say so in it, I beg you to get out. I beg you to do this because you actually aren’t in a relationship; you’re in emotional solitary confinement. Perhaps you aren’t accountable for finding yourself there, but you are accountable to get out and discover better for yourself.

One way a dominant person in a relationship will try to assert their power is through manipulation. Perhaps they may make you feel as though you have options to express yourself; however, in expressing yourself they impose extreme alternatives on you. Maybe they ask you to move out, threaten to break up with you, or warn that if you keep making the same requests you’re going to upset them.

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Stop Forcing People to Smile: It's Okay Not to Be Happy at Times

By: Lanisha Porter

Being Quiet Isn't a Requirement to Be Loved

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