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Lumen's Diary

Darling, It Gets Better (Lumen’s Diary)

I hope my story inspires you to not give up on yourself. Wherever you may be in life, whatever phase or age, it’s always worth it to start loving yourself, to start believing in yourself. I’m not saying it’s easy or fast. After all, it took me 10 years to get here. But you can make this shift in mindset, energy and confidence in 1 year if you really want, and you’re brave enough to choose yourself and decide that you deserve better. You can learn from my mistakes and make the change now, instead of later.

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Relationships

Friends with Benefits: Why It Exploits You & Benefits Him

The “friends with benefits” terminology has been popularized over the past 2 decades through pop culture and romcoms that only romanticized the idea and made it more socially acceptable for the developing generation at the time. The idea that it is not only acceptable, but normal to dissociate love from lust, affection from desire, the heart from the body. The idea that, an agreement where two people only satiate their lust in each other, and nothing else, can only be mutually beneficial. This belief has become so engrained that, years later, it’s almost controversial for a woman to come outright and exclaim that the FWB situationship is actually detrimental to a woman’s wellbeing.

Red Flags of Low Value Men (LVM)
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27 Red Flags of Low Value Men (LVM)

This system of values is not about qualities that people are born with. It is not something outside our power that we have either inherited or not. Instead, this system of values is something that we all develop for ourselves, choose for ourselves, create for ourselves. It is about values, beliefs and principles. It is about priorities, morals and mindset. It is about good manners, empathy and emotional intelligence. And that is the responsibility of each and every individual. And if you hold yourself to high standards, you should absolutely do the same to everything else in life, especially a partner! Here are the most common red flags of LVM, so you don’t have the learn the hard way…