Author: A Friend

I read this beautiful quote from the playwright Thornton Wilder in How To Know a Person.

I recently read How To Know a Person, a book about relationships by author David Brooks. I noted so many lines, I’ll be bringing up this book for weeks to come, most likely.

I just want to take a step back and recognize the wounding that happens for many of us over the years of shidduchim.

I am trying to come up with the right word to describe the part of the journey I am at now. Is it a stuck place? I thought that might be it. But I keep turning this question over, and though I don’t see a clear path before me, I also don’t really feel stuck. Am I simply resting, bobbing on …

According to Myers-Briggs, I am a sociable introvert (INFJ), which sounds about right. Though I like people, I tend to resist getting together with people, especially in the winter months when leaving the house means wrapping up and going out in the cold. But when I do, I’m always so glad I did. This week I went to a shiur …