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Early in her career, USA Today best-selling author Emma Grey felt like rejection would break her. Today, she’s made rejection something to reach for. The fear of rejection is evolutionary—we are ...

Romantic rejection is a rite of passage, and everyone’s either a victim or a villain. Online dating was designed to dodge it at all costs. But—surprise, surprise—it only gave rejection a software ...

Rejection is painful for the vast majority of us. It kicks into gear emotions and fears that have been encoded in our DNA since we were cave dwellers whose lives depended on social support and group ...