Not for me
As always, Louisa is making me think. In her latest post, she writes about her fear of abandonment: A paradigm of monogamy would have shielded me from abandonment with ‘rules’ that constructed the...
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I have never trusted a partner. Well, I probably trusted my first high school boyfriend, who broke up with me after three months and shattered my heart into a kabillion tiny pieces, but I’m not sure...
View ArticleSacrifice
image source A couple of months ago, I told New Guy that non-monogamy “is okay until it isn’t.” That this sort of relationship is not ideal for me, and not what I want, but it’s okay for now. I thought...
View ArticleAnxiety
I have so little time that I feel I have to make the best out of every single spare moment. When I am with New Guy, I don’t want to relax and watch TV. I want to ask him all the questions I came up...
View ArticleMid-February-I-Am-Anxious-Update
According to my therapist, I had a breakthrough in therapy last week when I announced, “I was going to talk to you about my job, and then I realized that I am not actually anxious about my job, nor am...
View ArticleThe official end of New Guy
A lot has gone on in the past week, especially yesterday. I need to focus on New Guy right now, but I also need to come back to Mediation/custody/Ex soon also. Last week in therapy I had a realization...
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