Close Reading

http://jezebel.com/5974934/in-defense-of-never-moving-on

This article is interesting because it's totally out of the ordinary- people always tell heartbroken lovers to "take time to move on". However, this man suggests that it might not be that bad of an idea to actually never move on. 

He has a frank but still eloquent tone, both to dispell the social norms of forgetting about your past relationships and to persuade the reader into imagining what he's saying, so that they can associate what is wrong with their behavior. He says that one needs to  "recall the inexplicable forces that caused you to act and react certain way. Because you'll encounter them again. There's a reason many of us tend to make the same mistake again and again. It's because we move those previous behaviors on to a shelf, into a taped up box containing one prior girlfriend or boyfriend. It's one we tell ourselves not to open. But moving past something means you can no longer learn from it." 

Calling the forces "inexplicable" and addressing the reader, saying that "you'll encounter them again", and "you can no longer learn from it" is like he's telling the reader what will happen to them, making them agree with him, especially because this is a very personal kind of topic. Saying that people make the same mistakes because they put their exes in a "taped up box" conjures images of items that were once of use that were put away in a dusty attic, never to be used again, even in cases where they could be useful, and saying that things are put on a shelf gives it the same kind of effect. His language is casual so you don't read this like a paper, but more like advice from someone who has had an experience.