Just Good Shit: 02.16.20

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Hi! This week was a busy one — my team at work was cranking out a big Valentine’s Day package, and The Art of Showing Up went to print. Here’s everything I was up to…

On the blog

• Last-minute Valentine's Day gift ideas for the discerning but procrastinating drugstore shopper

Writing

• Love/Hate Reads: 'He's Just Not That Into You,' Revisited

• How to Tell Your Partner You Want to Go to Couples Therapy

Editing

• Deleting Your Social Media Accounts After a Breakup Will Set You Free

• Everyone Has a Post-Breakup Shirt

• How to Get Rid of an Agonizing Crush on the Exact Wrong Person

• ‘How Do I know When It’s OK to Leave Work for the Day?’

I also had a big hand in several other Change of Heart articles!

Reading

Reddit’s Female Dating Strategy offers women advice — and a strict rulebook for how to act, The Verge.

Fashion Week Is Simply Not Sustainable, The Cut.

Lori Gottlieb's Marry Him Was Always a Caricature of the Petty, Shallow Woman, Jezebel.

The Original Renegade, The New York Times.

Tinder’s Most Notorious Men, The Atlantic.

Everyone at work is hanging out without me, Ask a Manager.

Try Out a New Accessory Away From Your Friends, Lifehacker.

I Don’t Go to Spin Class for My Ears to Bleed, Yet Here We Are, The Cut.

Watching

This week, I saw Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which is beautifully shot and feels like a cross between Call Me By Your Name and Titanic. I also watched The Long Shot, which is pretty silly and funny, as far as rom coms go.

Have a great Sunday! 💕

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