“Someone's therapist knows all about you.” ~Dominic Riccitello Neurotypical should have therapy so that they are better able to navigate their inter-personal relationships more effectively - especially with us non-neurotypicals who've had to go through it already. This is something I've thought about a lot lately, and actually feel quite strongly frustrated about now. See… Continue reading Neurotypical People Need Therapy
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.” ~ Susan Pease Banitt Facebook reminded me last week that it was four years to the day since my mental health coming out party. Or as I titled the event at the time my Taking Down My Christmas Tree Party. Because… Continue reading My Mental Health ‘Coming Out’ Party
"So what's the best way, in day-to-day life, to establish what someone likes? Well, we fucking ask them." ~ Cordelia Fine So, following a discussion I recently had on Facebook, prompted by this Ravishly article around practicing consent as a heterosexual woman, I agreed to write my thoughts on the subject of women and consent.… Continue reading Consent: Also For Women
“People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.” ~ Veronica Roth My dad doesn't like me very much. Or in fact at all. Apparently this one time when I was a toddler I did something so heinously manipulative that over a quarter of a century later he still hasn't come… Continue reading My Father In A Flash
(Image Credit) “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald If you really need relationship advice I tend to think that's probably a sign that you're in the wrong relationship. Says the woman who spends about a third of her blog pontificating about ways to have better relationships. But… Continue reading If You Need Relationship Advice You’re Probably In the Wrong Relationship
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Everyone you ever love will hurt you. And you… Continue reading Everyone You Ever Love Is Going To Hurt You
(Image Credit) "A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship." ~ Ranier Maria Rilke Having spent most of the last year watching some of my closest friends mercilessly flogging the dead horses of relationships they should never have been in… Continue reading Let Me Tell You A Secret About Relationships…
"Dylan (Justin Timberlake): Why can it not be like that? It's a physical act. Like playing tennis. Two people should be able to have sex like they're playing tennis. Jamie (Mila Kunis): Yeah! I mean, no one wants to go away for the weekend after they play tennis. Dylan: It's just a game. You shake hands, you get… Continue reading Why Having Sex Is Nothing Like Playing Tennis
"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing." ~ Jean-Jacque Rousseau I am very bothered when I think of all the bad things that I have done in my life. I haven't been able to get that line out of my head since I studied the poetry of Simon Armitage in school.… Continue reading I Am Very Bothered When I Think
"Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth." ~ Mike Nichols A couple of weeks ago I introduced you to The Imposter from My Life As Imposter. She talked about her life as a British Asian, and how she struggles with the Muslim Guilt Monster over matters of love… Continue reading By All Means Step Over My Cold, Dead Body and Save Yourself, You HARPY!
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