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#432 🔸 Why you argue with your partner about things that have nothing to do with them

3 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.05

  The healthy space in a relationship, which I wrote about last time, asks us to remain distinct individuals. But there is a mechanism that sabotages this distinction without our noticing: projection. The way our unhealed wounds attach themselves to...

#431 🔸 Why relationships that breathe are more durable than those in which two people melt into each other

3 Sep 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman $0.10

Being your own best friend, which I wrote about last time, brings us directly to a related theme: how you remain yourself in the presence of the other. And perhaps there is no more practical and more alive question in any couple relationship than thi...

#430 🔸 How not to feel abandoned by yourself in the moments when there is nobody else

2 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02

  Integrating rejections as lessons in inner reorientation, which I wrote about last time, requires a resource that does not come from outside: the capacity to be alongside yourself when you are alone. Not chosen and comfortable solitude, but absolut...

#429 🔸 What rejection is really telling you about yourself and how to stop letting it dictate your choices

1 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.04

  The courage to start over without guarantees, which I wrote about last time, runs inevitably into one of the most difficult inner obstacles: the memory of rejections. Those moments when you risked something, showed yourself, and received a no, expl...

#428 🔸 Why the most courageous beginnings are those without any guarantee they will work

1 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.05

  Catching self-sabotage in the act, which I wrote about last time, means choosing differently even when old patterns pull in the opposite direction. But there is a specific moment when that different choice is harder than in any other circumstance:...

#427 🔸 How to catch self-sabotage in the act before the damage is already done

31 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03

  The mind turned into a welcoming space, which I wrote about last time, makes something specific and practical possible: noticing what is happening inside you before acting from that place. And there is no more concrete application of that capacity...

#426 🔸 Why your mind judges you more harshly than any external judge and how to change that

30 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.12

  Dignity in the face of injustice, which I wrote about last time, means not letting what comes from outside destroy you. But there is a more persistent tribunal than any external circumstance, one that operates non-stop, without breaks and without r...

#425 🔸 How you remain whole when life is not fair to you and why how you traverse it matters

30 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.06

  The courage to be weak, which I wrote about last time, is a form of honesty towards one's own limit. But there are moments in life when limits come not from within but from outside, from what happens to you without your choosing it, from injustices...

#424 🔸 Why being weak sometimes is the most courageous thing you can do and how to allow yourself to

29 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03

  Worth that does not depend on external validation, which I wrote about last time, is closely tied to something even harder to reach: the capacity to be weak without feeling defeated. Not weakness as a permanent state, but weakness as a real moment,...

#423 🔸 Who you truly are when the phone is silent and nobody is watching you anymore

28 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.04

  Recalibrating expectations of yourself in hard periods, which I wrote about last time, requires knowing who you are independent of performance. But there is an even subtler form of the same test, lived daily without being recognised: who are you wh...