Anna Runkle

It's just like, oh, yeah, it's like this. This is what life is meant to be like. It's kind of like what drugs are like, really pleasant drugs, right? It just feels like the meaning becomes clear. So there's this lack of meaning that makes that feel like the only solution, like it's everything. There's a lack of meaning, there's a lack of connection and it's no fun.

Like it's not fun being alone and it's not fun feeling stuck in yourself and having no real people to love.

Like it's not fun being alone and it's not fun feeling stuck in yourself and having no real people to love.

Like it's not fun being alone and it's not fun feeling stuck in yourself and having no real people to love.

I probably have a skewed perspective because my audience is not totally representative. But young women, and especially lately, have it. Because a lot of people have long-distance relationships by chatting with somebody online, if you're a young woman and you're chatting online with somebody for a long time, there's a lot of opportunity for this to tip over into pretty toxic obsession.

I probably have a skewed perspective because my audience is not totally representative. But young women, and especially lately, have it. Because a lot of people have long-distance relationships by chatting with somebody online, if you're a young woman and you're chatting online with somebody for a long time, there's a lot of opportunity for this to tip over into pretty toxic obsession.

I probably have a skewed perspective because my audience is not totally representative. But young women, and especially lately, have it. Because a lot of people have long-distance relationships by chatting with somebody online, if you're a young woman and you're chatting online with somebody for a long time, there's a lot of opportunity for this to tip over into pretty toxic obsession.

Yeah. Yeah. And I notice it with a lot of young women who are very pressured by their families to achieve things, go to school, do things that they actually weren't really craving to do themselves. It was just some expectation. They haven't really become themselves. They're living up to some parental expectation. And so there's this emptiness. And sex is amazing. You

Yeah. Yeah. And I notice it with a lot of young women who are very pressured by their families to achieve things, go to school, do things that they actually weren't really craving to do themselves. It was just some expectation. They haven't really become themselves. They're living up to some parental expectation. And so there's this emptiness. And sex is amazing. You

Yeah. Yeah. And I notice it with a lot of young women who are very pressured by their families to achieve things, go to school, do things that they actually weren't really craving to do themselves. It was just some expectation. They haven't really become themselves. They're living up to some parental expectation. And so there's this emptiness. And sex is amazing. You

It really changes everything, doesn't it? And it can feel like that is the thing that was missing, the only thing that was missing. But in women, especially, it lights up this whole other belief. The way that sex feels is what love is. And so if I have this experience with somebody, it's absolutely the full dimension of love and it's what I must have. And it's this particular person.

It really changes everything, doesn't it? And it can feel like that is the thing that was missing, the only thing that was missing. But in women, especially, it lights up this whole other belief. The way that sex feels is what love is. And so if I have this experience with somebody, it's absolutely the full dimension of love and it's what I must have. And it's this particular person.

It really changes everything, doesn't it? And it can feel like that is the thing that was missing, the only thing that was missing. But in women, especially, it lights up this whole other belief. The way that sex feels is what love is. And so if I have this experience with somebody, it's absolutely the full dimension of love and it's what I must have. And it's this particular person.

And it's very sad because... It's very sad, but I don't think that's the only reason it happens. I think there's a need for love that's totally unmet and there's a practice. It's almost like a developmental delay is how I see it.

And it's very sad because... It's very sad, but I don't think that's the only reason it happens. I think there's a need for love that's totally unmet and there's a practice. It's almost like a developmental delay is how I see it.

And it's very sad because... It's very sad, but I don't think that's the only reason it happens. I think there's a need for love that's totally unmet and there's a practice. It's almost like a developmental delay is how I see it.

It's like a developmental delay that you don't know how to pay attention to how I really like this about this person I'm having dinner with, but this is a little weird and that's kind of a red flag. I should ask a question about that. It just becomes a total I'm all in. Men have it too. And they have their forms of idealizing. And some guys, it's like a woman is way up on a pedestal.

It's like a developmental delay that you don't know how to pay attention to how I really like this about this person I'm having dinner with, but this is a little weird and that's kind of a red flag. I should ask a question about that. It just becomes a total I'm all in. Men have it too. And they have their forms of idealizing. And some guys, it's like a woman is way up on a pedestal.

It's like a developmental delay that you don't know how to pay attention to how I really like this about this person I'm having dinner with, but this is a little weird and that's kind of a red flag. I should ask a question about that. It just becomes a total I'm all in. Men have it too. And they have their forms of idealizing. And some guys, it's like a woman is way up on a pedestal.

The most beautiful, the most amazing. Everything she touches, there's a light coming out of her. But there's this other kind that I see where they want to save a woman. They'll ruin a perfectly good marriage because of some woman. Yeah, I had a letter from a guy. He saw a woman unconscious on the sidewalk. And he called 911 and he stayed with her. And then he went to the hospital.