If you’re alive, you have been rejected. From the days of not being picked on the playground to the “sorry, you’re not what we’re looking for” at job interviews to the dead air from people you have ...

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It’s not always the case that both partners want to engage in physical intimacy. When one person turns down a sexual advance, their partner may feel rejected not just for the act of sex itself, but on ...

Back in 2000, I was a commission-based headhunter for a boutique recruiting firm outside of Washington, D.C. At 22 years old, I had been working in the “real” world for less than a year and had just ...

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There’s no good way to dump someone. But I wouldn’t recommend doing it via voicemail. Of all the rejections in my life, that one – courtesy of my first boyfriend at the tender age of 13 – felt like a ...

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