Is it Love Obsession or Dark Obsession?

Kim Petersen
Living Out Loud
Published in
7 min readSep 20, 2020

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Let’s talk about desire.

Photo by Shifaaz shamoon on Unsplash

It began a few nights ago with a Netflix show called Obsession: Dark Desires.

The last available episode of Good Girls was in the bag. Even though I didn’t fall in love with the series from the get-go — that is, I wasn’t obsessed — I did watch through season 3, albeit not in one sitting.

I blame actress Mae Whitman. She is simply fantastic in her role as Annie, bringing a layer of enchanting humor to the series that makes you want to ‘chew the love’ with her over a bourbon in some seedy downtown Detroit bar.

That’s a suspension of disbelief thing and not a dark obsession. I really have no desire to meet her.

So, I was scrolling the Netflix options on my iPad, looking for my next visual to suck me into a new story when I saw it: Obsession: Dark Desires.

Well, hello…

The title tweaked the incoming thought: Am I obsessed in love?

I wondered if being in love made me bat-shit crazy. It became one of those rabbit-hole questions.

What? We have to think about something.

May as well be:

Introspection — The Feeling of Love

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Kim Petersen
Living Out Loud

Award-winning & Bestselling Author | HH Prac. (Hol.Meta.Heal) | Writing About Soul. Love. Humor. Spirituality. Life. Relationships | https://kimpetersen.com.au/