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Does a Text Count as Showing Up?
Cost isn't the only measure of who really shows up for you.
 • David Eedle
What Happens When You Actually Let People Take Care of You?
The difference between choosing to hand over control and having no choice at all.
 • David Eedle
Why Does Stillness Feel Unsafe When You're Lonely?
The neuroscience of why stillness feels unsafe when you're lonely, and one small way to make it easier.
 • David Eedle
Are You Kind, or Just Unable to Say No?
The difference between quiet kindness and a boundary you never learned to set.
 • David Eedle
Does Ethical Non-Monogamy Actually Cure Loneliness?
More partners doesn't fix an unsettled sense of self. A look at what ethical non-monogamy can and can't do about loneliness, and why the difference…
 • David Eedle
Could I Actually Let My Friends Throw My Own Party?
What my own birthday taught me about a lifetime of refusing to ask for help.
 • David Eedle
Can One Person Really Meet Every Need You Have?
Why the healthiest relationships stop trying to be the whole village.
 • David Eedle

August 2026

Is the Fight Proof Your Relationship Is Real?
What repair reveals about whether a relationship is actually real.
 • David Eedle
How Does a Friend Move On When You Just Disappear?
On building a birthday guest list, realising who you've let drift, and why they get to decide if they come back.
 • David Eedle
Is Beating Yourself Up the Same as Taking Responsibility?
On why guilt and shame feel almost identical after a mistake, and only one of them actually fixes anything.
 • David Eedle
I Have 'Kindness Respect Love' Tattooed on My Arm. I'm Working on the Joy (Part 2 of turning 60)
Part two of my turning 60 series: money, kids, tattoos, and the slow work of growing joyful.
 • David Eedle
"You Think You're Such Hot Shit": The Girl at the Sailing Club Was Right About Me (Part 1 of turning 60)
As I approach 60, I find myself reckoning with regret, ageing, therapy and the person I used to be; this is the first of two articles leading up to my…
 • David Eedle
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