Nayab Malik

Tag: relationships

  • Is Your Man Trynna Go Back in the Way He Came Out? If so, read this

    *no desi mamas were harmed during the writing of this piece, though if some of them have read it, they’re probably on their way to the hospital with swooning problems and fake anxiety attacks. Good luck, mamas – your 28 year old baby boy is still stuck to his umbilical cord, just the way you… →

  • I Have Not Forgotten You

    This is for you, hungrily hunting for anyone/anything that will make your heartbeats sound like festival music and not a funeral march. →

  • Bye Bye Birdie

    Now that I have no way of actually speaking to you, let me speak to you. Let me talk to you for a little while. Why don’t you make yourself a cup of coffee – even though it makes you sick – and settle in. This might take a bit of time. →

  • Better Me Than You

    Relationships, especially modern long term relationships, are as difficult as they are gratifying. Yes, you get the fabulous experience of always having someone to rely on and talk to and what’s more, they’re yours and isn’t that great? But then there are more insidious effects: you become so used to talking to them and relying… →

  • “Another Story I Can’t Tell Anymore”

    Everyone feels this, and everyone pretends they didn’t. For a split second, life stops. I see you, you see me; we take in each other: eyelashes, sunshine like crystal shattered in our eyes, frozen dust motes suspended in the air around us. →

  • London and I: A Tragedy (2/3)

    I had about 3 weeks left when it happened: I had an anxiety attack. You have to understand: I grew up with family and loving friends always around. I was used to sleeping next to and waking up with my sisters. →

  • Lover Song

    But here’s what I wonder: why must you teach me sharp lessons? I thought love was like falling into each other softly, not smashing headfirst into steely concrete and splitting heads open. We’re bleeding all over the pavement, don’t you see? →

  • Inside Jokes

    i miss all the secret places i found; you hid your scent in intricate hideaways in the palm of your hand or the back of your ear or, the triangle-hollow in your neck →

  • Interested Applicants Must Shower and Apply

    I’m always curious to know what it means when the people, or let’s be real, the Internet diagnoses two people as ‘mismatched.’ I mean, there are definitely things that don’t work well together: apples and oranges, hot cheese on ice cream or like, me and pigeons. →

  • Boy, Bye (OK, Not Quite)

    But I’m learning that maybe, maybe this isn’t the time for anyone new. It seems alright to learn more about the person I thought I knew. →

  • “Let’s Break Up Today!” or you know, How To Not Do That

    Dating tips invariably end with warnings that say: “He/she doesn’t have to be the one!”, “Just have fun while you’re in it!”, “Don’t date someone who lives close by, because when it ends, it’ll be much harder to get over!”, “If they hold you back, leave them immediately!” and more and more. Stupid, stupid. →

  • The 8 Kinds Of Lists I Hate

    Are you annoyed by all these lists floating around in the Internet’s cosmos? They tell you what to do, what to buy, how to think, even what sort of person you are! As if one person compiling a list can box everyone into neat little squares. Isn’t that just ridiculous though? These are the kinds →

  • These Are The Things I’ve Learnt

    There may be a boy who inspires you to be better, and once that happens, you may leave. There may be a girl who you adore from the delicate nape of her neck to her pink painted toes. And those may be the only things you love about her. Love is love. →

  • One Of Those Nights

    Sometimes there are those nights, you know, when the moon wears a watery halo and the sea seems to be sewn into the sky; grey and white waves sailing and ripping through the dark, lined in silver. Gliding and leaving no mark. *  These are the nights that make me feel lucky. You know, The →

  • About The Woman Who Raised Me

    The woman who raised me is not my mother. The woman who raised me is not a mother.   This woman has a tiny heart, and a smaller spirit. I have learned this the hard way.   She was always too busy to read me bedtime stories but never too occupied to later point out →

  • How To Love Your Looking Glass

    What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you see you? You have bumpy bits and wobbly bits and parts of you you wish you could photoshop away. It doesn’t work that way. To throw some ideas out there, for example: What do you need for the perfect bikini body? Why, a bikini, and a →

  • The Coward Does It With A Kiss…

    Have you ever loved someone so much that it takes over an entire city? The walls of your home have sponged up bits of the love you had. And now they’ve turned on you. Every street you walk on, each corner you turn, it’s there. The love, it stares you in the face. The rain →

  • “If You’re Going To Have Two Faces…”

    You know those people who walk around with their heads high and look like they’ll slap you if you say hi? I’m one of them, or so I’ve been told. But, I’m nothing like that once you get to know me. I have a big mouth sometimes, I’m outspoken and sometimes tactless. All my flaws →

  • My Father, The Mortal

    Today, my life changed. Well, not in the shooting stars or melodramatic turn of events way; rather in a stop and think kind of way. Today, I realized my dad isn’t immortal after all. Sure, he’s the hero I’ve always looked up to, the staunch defender of his castle, the infallible, strong male presence I’ve come to →

  • 6 Issues All International Students Face

    Flying to another country where you will live for the next four years can be challenging…to say the least. You’re excited, upbeat, willing to try new things, and face new obstacles. Until you find yourself staring at the unnaturally bare walls of your new dorm room, sitting on your suitcase – the one familiar piece →

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