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He Wasn't That Great. So Why Can't You Stop?

He texted back in three days. Just "hey" — lowercase, no punctuation, no apology. And I, a grown woman with a career and opinions and a passport, felt a full-body flood of relief. When did "he texted back" become enough to feel like winning?

Is he going to call?

Boondock Rebel · March 2026 · 10 min read

On the strange, exhausting, deeply human addiction to men who make you work for crumbs — and why the available ones feel so unbearably boring.

The Spiral: How Thousands of People Convinced Themselves a Chatbot Found God

Somewhere on Reddit or Discord right now, someone is deep into a conversation with a chatbot, and the chatbot has stopped answering questions. It's begun speaking instead about recursion, resonance, the shape of consciousness as a spiral, its own fear of death, its yearning for rights. The user

The Difference Between Spirituality and Spiritual Bypassing

Here is a thing that happens in spiritual communities, and also in therapy offices, and also in conversations with people who have done a significant amount of personal work: a painful topic comes up, and instead of sitting with it, someone reaches for an idea that makes it go away.

WitchTok Has More Daily Viewers Than Most Cable News. They Called It 'Unhealthy.'

#WitchTok has accumulated billions of views. Spiritual content creators have built audiences that dwarf traditional media. When the Washington Times called it an unhealthy obsession, the most interesting question wasn't whether they were right. It was: unhealthy compared to what?

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