/lit/ - Literature

>>12102657
Love? My parents taught me what love means.

When my dad was in college he spent his summers bar tending at Legal Seafoods in Newton MA. He was struggling to pay his way through law school, and he was trying to take care of his 3 younger brothers. His mother had just died of cancer. His remaining family was all tat kept him from committing suicide. He was 23 years old, had few friends, and generally kept to himself and read a lot of books. If he were a kid today I think he’d have been one of us here on /lit/. My mother had her own struggles; a borderline abusive older sister, financial troubles, and generally she had trouble fitting in. She’d bounced from school to school trying to figure out what she wanted to do. They read each other’s similar energy and gravitated towards one another. My mom would come over and make a home cooked meal for my dad and his brothers, the first time anyone had since their mother had died. They learned to take shelter from the trouble in their lives within one another, and growing up, I lived in a home absolutely overflowing with love. Through the hardest times in our lives, when my sister almost died, when I became deathly sick, when we lost everything in the 2008 crash, they were an immovable fortress in my life. Everything they’ve been through, the types of things that cause divorces, it’s only makes them stronger. They are an unstoppable team because they found their way out of the dark together.

MGTOW, internet “feminism,” Tinder, and all this other bullshit, do not let it sway you /lit/. Learn to rise above, seek to understand the power over your life you can create if you are willing to open yourself to another person. You have to be brave. Women need men, and men need women. Without this dynamic in life, all is lost

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>>11894285
My fellow ignored anons deserve some help. Read Martin Seligman's Learned Optimism. This book will help you see why you think the way you do and how to overcome it. I'll not gonna lie though: The coming journey won't be smooth, or complete in a couple of days; But at the end, if you put in the effort, it will be rewarded.

>you will never be in this comfy of a location