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Left On Read.
This is where the real story begins. Rafiq and I started having some issues. I began expressing how hurt I felt by his lack of...
Layla Noore
Jul 252 min read


What We Said Before The Silence
It happened. We confessed. He told me the feeling was mutual and then he said more. He admitted he had felt this way for a long time. I...
Layla Noore
Jul 202 min read


One Look. One Confession. A Thousand Cracks.
I was falling in love, and I didn't know how to hold it in anymore. It had only been a few days and I didn't understand how this was...
Layla Noore
Jul 172 min read


The Love That Caught Me Off Guard.
I wasn't supposed to fall in love. Not with him. And definitely not in three days. This post is hard to write because I am still healing...
Layla Noore
Jul 72 min read


The Second Thought... Of Someone Else
There he was. Always in the background. Rafiq—my childhood friend, tucked away in my homeland, Tehran. We’d spent years like that;...
Layla Noore
Jun 261 min read


When My Heart Betrayed Me... or So I Thought
Sometimes in life, we’re so sure we’ve made the right decision; so sure that the outcome has to reflect that. Right? Wrong. I thought I...
Layla Noore
Jun 221 min read


The Love I Thought Was My Forever
I met my husband in my 20s, in a small city tucked somewhere in the heart of the U.S. We fell in love fast. The kind of love they write...
Layla Noore
Jun 211 min read
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