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This applies to those that are tempted to text every detail, event, thought, and feeling with your partner throughout the day. Having that urge is usually a good sign, it means you're thinking about your partner and want to feel connected with them while you're apart!

But I've found that when I hold onto those thoughts and experiences and wait to share them in person, it actually creates a much more intentional space for connecting together. It feels so good to come home and say "I have so much I want to share with you!" Rather than burning all your material impulsively sharing everything in the moment.

Also, sharing negative things with your partner like work stresses can put your partner in a position where they feel pressured to offer solutions or comfort. But if you bring it up later in the past tense, it's still a moment of vulnerability but it turns into "this is something I struggled with, but I handled it" which my partner finds very attractive.

Of course there are plenty of couples out there who already don't text that much, there are couples out there who are long distance or don't have as much time together, and there are couples who text all the time and make it work. This isn't meant to apply to everyone, but I've found it successful in my relationship and maybe it could be helpful to others too!

I've been vegan for ~7 years and I love to cook, but I've always been afraid to make desserts. And for some recipes the alternative ingredients are just too expensive!

I've tried and failed vegan cakes, even using box cake mix subbing the eggs for flax egg. The only successful sweets I've made have been pancakes, oat bars, and chocolate covered strawberries lol.

Towards the beginning of the film when Danny passes out and Wendy is talking to the doctor, she tells the story of Jack breaking Danny's arm. She says "he swore he'd never touch another drop, and he hasn't had any alcohol in... 5 months..."

Later, Jack refers to the incident to Lloyd and says "it was 3 goddamn years ago!!"

I interpret this as Jack begging Wendy to stay with him and forgive him after injuring Danny - promising to get sober - then continuously breaking his promise throughout the 3 years, only now being on his most recent 5 months of sobriety. This tracks with the themes of Jack resenting his responsibilities as a father and husband and not taking the role seriously. It makes me imagine how much hell Wendy has been through and how many chances she's given him that he doesn't even appreciate.I think it also mirrors some toxic, addict relationships I've witnessed in my life.

This has become my favorite part of the entire film because it contains such rich subtext for me to speculate on.

But since the film deals with time in an interesting way, I could imagine interpretations that there's a strange, dreamlike time jump or something else going on in that moment.

What do you think?