"If I had waited, it would’ve been much so much worse."

"She wants someone to tell her that her life is hard even when it’s objectively not."

"It's like she handed me a film reel I didn’t ask for, and now it plays on loop in my head over... and over... and over."

"It’s not that I expect disaster but honestly my mind just naturally prepares for the worst."

"Your brain starts stressing about stress that hasn’t even happened yet."

"I am not competing with other women. I’m competing with the New York Jets."

"You scroll and feel like you’re falling behind, even though you’re just trying to exist."

"If I stay quiet, it feels like I’m ignoring her. If I speak up, it feels like I’m making it worse."

"I couldn’t crop, tilt, or filter my way out of it."

"The guilt made me feel ungrateful. Like I should be waking up every morning thanking Jamie Dimon for the privilege."

"Instead of feeling lucky, I just felt empty. Quite literally dead inside."

"I've convinced myself lying in bed with a phone pressed to my face is self-care."

"Managing a team of 15 when half the time I barely know what I’m doing myself? Hard pass."

"I just stared at it, pulse hammering, like the numbers might vanish if I blinked."

"I realized I wasn’t her friend. I was her audience."

"It’s like being taken to Applebee’s once a year while everyone else’s partner is planning trips to Paris."