Mwc Space

Sometimes there is too much, and sometimes too little — “I wanted to reach out, but I’m also trying to give you space. I want to respect your needs.” I read the text over and over. I don’t understand. We haven’t really spoken in months. Not since the “last” talk. He has hardly said a word to me since then. …

Repeat after me: It’s not about you — Hey, parents who are about to drop your kid off at college for the first time. Can we talk? As you usher your precious pearls through the archway of adulthood in the midst of a pandemic, you can either totally screw up this last milestone, or you can knock it…

The Medium Writers Challenge is now live and waiting for your entries — Human Parts has long been a place for stories that make readers feel, think, and, we hope, consider what it means to be a person in the world. If you’re reading this, maybe you’re a writer yourself — or have always wanted to try it. …

Hoarding can also occur in our heads — More than a century ago — in 1905, to be precise — famed physicist and future Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein published four papers in Annalen der Physik, the prestigious German scientific journal. One of the papers, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, focused on special relativity and introduced the…

Your partner will appreciate it — Want a quick way to end your relationship? Be around your significant other all the time. Don’t give them any me-time. Don’t give them personal space. Whenever you’re home together, stay right next to them. That’s what happened to me with my ex-boyfriend. He was visiting me one weekend and…

One day they are home, and the next, they are grown. — Editor’s Note: This Medium Writers Challenge entry was added to Human Parts on November 4, 2021. The event I had been anticipating all summer arrived — college freshman move-in day. The car was so tightly packed that it took three of us pushing and tugging to get the pillow into…

You’re not crazy. Someone’s manipulating you, and you’re unaware of it. — According to Psychology Today, gaslighting is a manipulative behavior of people around you that destroys your self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-trust. It’s the most subtle yet powerful form of emotional abuse and destroys your life. It took me years to realize that people were treating me in toxic ways. It took…