"I told you so"
Request: used to point out that one's warnings, although ignored, have been proved to be well founded.
Behaviors
friend-zoning yourself
The unconscious or deliberate behavior where an individual limits their own romantic potential by acting in ways that signal they are only interested in friendship, often due to self-doubt, fear of rejection, or protective patterns -- Brave AI.
keeping the sabbath
Request: [including] to rest from labor on Sunday.
living on your own terms
Request: Kind of way to transcend victim mentality I guess.
marriage instinct
Instincts are ego-centric, evolutionary patterns of thought without a realistic context: the presumption is that one's happiness depends on obtaining the form of marriage and the content of its accoutrements.
idealization
The action of regarding or representing something as perfect or better than in reality -- google dictionary.
"justified" falsehood
Well below a white lie, it is the tipping point to rationalize any application of force.
running away from Love
Request: A pattern in behavior.
calling a spade a spade
While the context is in the 400s—TvF has it at 490—in practice its effect applies to the material world and physical behaviors, the 200s, not to the analysis and abstractions of the intellect.
disgust
Request: strong feeling of dislike or sickness caused by something gross, ugly, or very unpleasant.
cynicism
Request: attitude of distrust or the belief that people are motivated purely by self-interest.
fear of doing something karmically wrong
e.g. making a mistake, taking the wrong advice, making the wrong decision, reacting incorrectly to a given circumstance, because your choices will come back to ‘bite’ you. By request.
flip a coin
Request: Tossing a coin into the air to make a random decision between two options.
respecting and honoring the dignity of all individuals
Request: I work at a hospital with often very old and sickly people. This was recently sent out as an update to the company wide code of conduct and I like the way it is worded so I wanted to see how it calibrates. It feels similar to "kindness towards all of life in all its expressions."
loner
Request: "a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others" – dictionary.com.