Plus, the sneaky reason we communicate this way in the first place.
"The call is coming from inside the house."
If your partner is always trying to show you something your pet is doing, there's a good reason why.
"We dwindled our savings to nothing and came close to losing everything."
“He knew I wanted a sleeve. I’ve been showing him pictures of tattoos for months.”
Running a household requires a lot more work than many people realise — and it’s time we stop taking it for granted.
"Things are very cold between us right now, and I genuinely wonder if I did something last night that probably ruined my marriage."
"Entire days would pass without me being able to come up with a single interesting conversation topic. Doug’s reticence certainly wasn’t helping."
From 'woke' to 'gaslighting' – a Leeds University academic is concerned about our misuse of words.