The Aftermath of Loving a Narcissist

Our game is over. We can keep fighting and cuddling and crying and shanking each other in the most intimate wounds we shared when trust was the drug we shot each other up with but I have no trust left to give you. I don’t know who broke you so badly that you aren’t…

Why I don’t identify as “poly”

Around two or so years ago, I identified as “polyamorous”. In 2012, I stopped calling myself “poly” for a variety of reasons, and instead chose to call myself “non-monogamous”. I want to share the reasons I stopped associating with the “poly” community in part as a way to…

How to Reboot a Relationship (With a Partner or Yourself)

If you know what’s truly getting in the way…

being newly single

Ugh. The reality of being a newly single, 20-something female after 4.5 years of being in an “adult” relationship is a…

Will non-monogamy be the next civil-rights movement?

Going through issues of morality and legislation

Love and luck and Joe and Vivian

If it hadn’t been for a huge, industrial-strength bolt of luck in the middle of Manhattan in 1943, I…

Everything I Know About Dating

Anne Lamott is a gem. On her 61st birthday, she shared everything she knows at this stage of life — a virtual treasure trove of wisdom…

Laughter really is carbonated holiness.

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and…

When Your Career Is Your Dating Life

We all have our types…

She smiled by severing me a relief

She might ask herself about it on several occasions, but she could never find the actual reason what made her love him. She really has no clue, what I found by observing her. Her pale face, her depressed smile kept me haunting each and every time I met her. She never…