Many conversations on the topic of love with those who denounce it as if they've resisted its pull and beaten it down or are somehow above it but it's a form of denial because they do not want to admit that love has in fact beaten them left them battered and bruised with such severe … Continue reading In love in denial
The Middle: Secrets, disappointments & rhetorical questions
If this is your first read, you can go back and start with The Last Time, continue with The First Time, and read a post-script in the After "The Last time." _____________________________________________________________________________________ I was at my Mom's early last week, and while she went in the kitchen, I stayed in the hallway and tried to take the … Continue reading The Middle: Secrets, disappointments & rhetorical questions
After “The last time”: Cookie crumbs and lies
When I originally wrote the three-part story that is now published here as The Last time and The First time, I had also written The Middle. But as I read what I wrote, I realized that it didn't do justice to the real dysfunction that went on. It reads more like sex gone wrong, than … Continue reading After “The last time”: Cookie crumbs and lies
The First time: Love and lust in a three part story
This story begins at the end with The Last time: Love and lust in a three part story. ____________________________________________________________________________ The Sliding Door tells the story of a woman—played by Gwyneth Paltrow—whose life goes two very different ways based on what transpires at one moment in time: Whether she caught or missed a commuter train. Most of … Continue reading The First time: Love and lust in a three part story
The last time: Love and lust in a three part story
This story, which I tell in three parts, took place in a span of about 10 years. As I began to feel compelled to share it a couple of years back, I did it anonymously because it was very difficult for me to share something so intimate with the world. But broken hearts come with … Continue reading The last time: Love and lust in a three part story
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