As another year comes to a close, you might not feel the pull to do more, try harder, or reinvent yourself yet again. What you're craving instead is relief. Space. Honesty. The kind that comes from no longer carrying what blocks love from finding you. Crossing into a new year isn't always about what you're calling in. Sometimes, it's about what you're finally ready to release so love can arrive. What to Leave Behind These beliefs quietly block love—beliefs you may not have consciously chosen,...

What do the lyrics "Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me" really mean? How do we begin with ourselves while staying silent in conversations that drain us, saying yes when we mean no, or spending time with people who never reciprocate our energy? Is that what's known as keeping the peace?

From the outside, our love story may look slow. We wrote to each other for five months before meeting in person. We didn't move in together for 3-1/2 years. We got engaged after five. And now, we're living in and savoring the bliss of being engaged before we decide on a wedding date. Every step has felt perfectly right for us—not because we were following a plan, but because we weren't.