How are other people so sure when they want to get married? How do they stay sure of it? If they’re not always sure, then why do they act like it on Instagram? When a good number of my friends’ responses included some form of “you just know,” or “go with your gut,” I became obsessed with this question: How do I know if what I’m thinking is coming from my brain or my gut? And if there is such a thing as gut-level instinct separate from my rational brain, how do I know that I can really trust it? Recently, a bout of garden-variety existentialism led to me asking too many people for advice about my relationship.
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