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“ Things you only know if you’re single…that “I love you” may mean: I want to love you; I love this; do that again; don’t leave; I feel I should love you; I love ****ing you; my previous boyfriend/girlfriend would never have done that; I’m sorry; I appear to like you more than all the others; shush; do what I want; you are infuriating; this silence embarrasses me; I have to go; I feel old; I feel responsible; I feel obliged to love you back; help me; I’m ending this; life without you may be preferable, but would be terrifying, rudderless, unknown; everyone else seems to love you; I love the look of you; stop shouting; I’m punching above my weight; I would appear to be in some way addicted to you; seeing you with someone else makes my chest hurt; there must be a reason why I have never felt more awful; I think about you as a way of not thinking about something else; I hate you; that song is playing; you cause me more pain than other people; I’m tired of being on my own; it’s comfortable having you around; I am sick of everyone else coming in two by two; you fit the definition of someone I might be expected to love; you appear to love me; I’m exhausted so this will suffice; loving someone makes me look like a functional human being; you make things easier while not yet having become an albatross about my neck; I’m tired of myself; Christmas/Chanukkah/Kwanzaa is coming up; I love myself in your company; you pay me the requisite attention; I relish our sense of conspiracy; you are a(nother) glorious and necessary distraction from my inglorious and unnecessary existence; you unnerve me; you raise my game; say that you love me. ”

The complicated subtext to I love you (via gauntlet) (via lucerovespertino)

This is painful to read, but so true, except that I would argue the part about only knowing this if you are single; the sad truth is that there have been numerous occasions where I’ve said ‘I love you’ and was aware that I actually meant one of those other things, and moreover on just as many occasions heard ‘I love you’ from my partner and been all too aware exactly which of these they were actually feeling.

Still, a great list of all the neediness we try to obscure behind three exalted words.

(via melanyouth)

“ Interestingly, one thing [Perez] Hilton and [Aubrey] O’Day share is a belief in her fame. So Hilton writes about her frequently; he creates for her an illusion that O’Day is a far bigger star than just a former reality cable show contestant from a forgotten group who is now working a three-month contract in a Vegas topless show. ”

Richard Abowitz in this well-written (and very interesting) blog post about Perez Hilton and the skewed sense of celebrity obsession that sites like his evokes.

Major zing at O’Day but so true. Honestly, who do these people think they are? And how does someone like Perez convince anyone to care?

(via mascarah)

“ I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch. ”

Gilda Radner (via kari-shma) (via emilyposts)