Marriage – The LITMO Life

To Love Is An Act Of Rebellion

Here’s Why I Think We Sometimes Lose Friends When We’re Happy Since we’ve been married (just about four months now!), both Jonathon and I have watched in surprise as certain friendships have fallen from our lives. I’m a bit more of an all-over-the-place-social-butterfly than he is, so I had a big circle of close friends, […]

The Psychology Of Deciding To Get Married After 5 Weeks Of Dating

Well, actually, we probably get married after less than 8 weeks of dating. You see, the trajectory of our romance was to meet at Barnes & Noble for a “coffee thing”, then meet up a week later after I got back from Guatemala for a “dinner thing” (at which we made out like teenagers) and then to tell ourselves that we were just Friend-Fucking (that’s an Anjali original, don’t steal it) until one weekend away when we admitted our feelings to each other.

A (True) Story About A Traveler Who Hates Commitment

A (True) Story About A Traveler Who Hates Commitment Once upon a time, there was a girl. We’ll call her Schmanjali. (*Editor’s note: this name and story are completely fictionalized so any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.) (*Editor’s second note: I’m lying.) Schmanjali was a really fun chick, sometimes. She was […]

The Key To My Marriage Is Being Married To A Stranger

The below is a piece that I submitted to a publication, really hoping they would accept it. They did not, and instead of holding on to it and pitching it around, I realized it was important to me, and it was a piece I really enjoyed writing.

Happiness Isn’t A Static Concept (So How Could Anything Else Be?)

Happiness Isn’t A Static Concept (So How Could Anything Else Be?) I’m not very consistent. Readers of The LITMO Life will know that this is true of me and everything. I’m not consistent about blogging, I’m not consistent about YouTubing, I’m not consistent about what I want to do for more than one moment in […]

Here’s Why I Think We Sometimes Lose Friends When We’re Happy

I Asked Married People Their Favorite Time Of Day With Their Spouse

I Asked Married People Their Favorite Time Of Day With Their Spouse My favorite time of day with Jonathon is right before he wakes up. He’s all sleepy and warm and groggy. I’m *pretty* sure that if he was asked, he’d say the same time of day for me. Obviously, there are also lots of […]