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Love & Relationships – Real Stories, Emotional Patterns, and Adult Intimacy

The Bestie Squad Authors write about love and relationships not as ideals, but as lived emotional experiences. This section explores how adults connect, misread, desire, attach, and sometimes hurt each other — often without realizing why.

You won't find dating hacks or relationship "rules" here. Instead, these stories focus on emotional patterns, communication breakdowns, attachment wounds, and quiet moments people rarely talk about.

What You'll Find in This Topic

  • • Real emotional moments between adults in romantic relationships
  • • Stories about attachment, avoidance, longing, and emotional distance
  • • Reflections on love after disappointment, betrayal, or silence
  • • Psychological insights explained through lived experience, not jargon
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#attachment #emotional distance #avoidant partner #unspoken love #breakups #obsession #longing #boundaries #situationship

Core Reads on Love & Relationships

Explore by Emotional Theme

Attachment & Emotional Distance

Communication & Silence

Longing & Obsession

Breakups & Unfinished Love

Boundaries & Self-Worth

Desire & Emotional Safety

Situationships & Modern Love

About the Authors

The Bestie Squad Authors write about adult emotions, relationships, and psychological patterns through personal reflection and long-form storytelling.

Buddy Buddy Cory Cory Pavo Pavo Vix Vix Luna Luna

Our work focuses on emotional clarity rather than advice, and experience rather than theory.

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