Olivia Arocena

Writer and Editor

Olivia has been an official writer since the day she published her first poetry book at just 19 years old, but she’s been an unofficial writer since forever. After that came the publication of her Diaries, which she had been writing for most of her late teens and continues to do so today. One lucky day, she finally managed to merge her offline writing with her online persona and craft a blog, where she publishes more polished pieces aimed at a curious audience that can’t keep track of her many talents. She graduated from Drama School and is currently studying Linguistics. She is also chronically online, an avid reader, and a singer. A fascination with the many ways humans communicate is what drives her work and interests.

The unavoidable friend I don’t think this is a matter of how social this friend is, really. I know that’s a plausible theory, but some attitudes point to other underlying reasons for this friend’s intrusiveness. Some people can’t see t

Woman wonders how to stop overly social friend from inserting herself into every plan she makes with other people: ‘Sometimes she’ll even message the other person directly or show up after getting the details from me’

I’m not sure ghosting is an effective tactic, and it’s not necessary to go to the extreme opposite and tell the person you dated only once what exact attributes they had that turned you off. To me, the best option is to say something along the lines of: ‘I didn’t feel the connection, but I had a great time; nice to me

Woman wonders about the effects of getting repeatedly ghosted and the reasons why it happens: ‘There were NEVER any signs of incompatibility. We could have fun, talk deep stuff, but the person would still disappear’

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‘Why are people this miserable and pathetic?’: Entitled customer yells at a customer service agent for something he couldn’t possibly have influence over

Force majeure This is the typical discordance that emerges when we think about a problem by looking at the bigger picture rather than its every detail. We’d like to think that upper management takes every part of the company into consideration when they make big decisions like laying people off, but sometimes they don’t, and they

Upper management fires 4 employees from the same team without letting their manager know beforehand: ‘Had I been asked I could have pointed leadership to the actual underperformer on my team’

I don’t think limitations are problematic per se. Maybe you have a boyfriend who can’t help you with laundry because he hates doing laundry and has hated it all his life, and maybe you can deal with that, and it’s not the end of the world. Maybe that same boyfriend loves doing the dishes, and you hate it, and you divide house tasks accordingly.

32-year-old boyfriend refuses to help 30-year-old girlfriend with any task but gets upset when she tries to hire somebody else to help her: ‘When we’ve talked about this, he tells me he wants me to be able to do most things on my own without help’

I know I didn’t invent this; it’s common knowledge for some reason. Things do not become clichés randomly; it’s because, over time, they happen over and over again, across countries, across cultures, across everything. This is one of them. I’m not afraid of stating it: EXES DO HAVE A RADAR THAT TELLS THEM WHEN YOU’RE DOING FINE. This has happened to me on various occasions, and it was not eve

Recently single 75-year-old man has been contacted by multiple exes in the span of one month and doesn’t understand why: ‘What is the psychological motive here?’

It’s time to RTO It’s hard to think it’s all for the best when you just signed the lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office you now have to return to. Some things we can’t predict, and

Company announces RTO immediately after employee signs a lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office: ‘My manager knew I was moving, I told him directly, he said nothing. HR knew, I updated my address in the system’

Shrek WHAT? I can’t believe this is an actual concept, but we are living in a strange era. What is the world coming to? Lol. Of course, she is not overreacting; this could very well be the modern version of Carrie, except

24-year-old man introduces the concept of “shrekking” on a date: ‘I bet you're glad for this trend, How does it feel to be on a date with someone so handsome?’

Not many things are as frustrating in the dating world as discovering that somebody you thought was the perfect guy wasn’t perfect at all. If we’re lucky enough, this kind of thing happens early, and we’re attentive enough to see it and take action. After an event like this, we can get caught up in any sort of justification for our significant

‘I met his college best friends at a pub and he instantly morphed into a loud, obnoxious alpha bro’: Woman wonders if she is overreacting or if the perfect guy she was dating suddenly dropped his mask

Do we get married to please family and friends? I don’t think the concept of marriage is independent of gatherings and celebrations; the origins of marriage as a ceremony are directly linked to community, family, and groups. It was originally a celebration precisely orchestrated within society and a ritual that symbolized a passage from one role inside it

A couple gets secretly engaged, then secretly married, and ends up disappointing their loved ones when they eventually find out: ‘From our perspective, we didn't do it to exclude anyone or because we don't love our families and friends’