Dec 5, 2019 | Love, Over Coffee
“I’m 19. My girlfriend and I broke up six months ago and it hit me really hard. We were together for a year and a half. It might sound really cringey, but both of us felt like we were soulmates. We had a lot of things in common and we’d made lots of plans for...
Oct 17, 2019 | loneliness, Love, Over Coffee
“I struggle to get on well with people. I’m not nice at all. Most of the time I ask people really undesirable questions. I usually ask things that are really extreme and basically on the verge of what’s acceptable. But, this is just to test the limit. Maybe...
Oct 10, 2019 | Death, Love, Over Coffee, Suffering
“We were different in my generation. We used to have long relationships, of course, but we also had quite a lot of short relationships too. Some involved sex, some didn’t. We had many more relationships than you guys seem to have nowadays. And I think that...
Sep 26, 2019 | Anxiety, Love, Over Coffee
“Social anxiety plays a big role in my life. I’m quite a perfectionist. My thoughts are so perfect, but when I try to communicate them I’m disappointed. I’m coping better than I used to. I’m not as anxious as I was before. But somehow it feels like I’ve missed...
Sep 24, 2019 | Depression, Friendship, Love, Over Coffee, Self-love
Ana-Maria: “We’re best friends. But I don’t even think we match. We’re really different but that also feels like the key part of our friendship. With her, I have different types of conversation than I have with almost anyone else. We know what buttons to...
Sep 17, 2019 | Death, Grief, Love, Over Coffee
“I spent four years in the war. It was terrible. I was eighteen years old at the time and I became a flight engineer on the Lancaster bombers. I got married during the war and we were two opposites. She was entirely different to me in her way of life, and I was...