How do you teach someone to love you the way you need to be loved?
I ask.
Baby steps.
He replies.
The consequences of your actions, by deliberation or by indifference, remain your responsibility.
Just because I accepted something, doesn’t mean that I didn’t wish that it hadn’t happened. That said, all I really want is peace of mind One way or another Give it to me or leave me to find it for myself It is not a crime to know what you…
I like this Reverb10 but it still digs into the much-dug-into bits of my life, all through the same writing exercise. Here goes, anyway. December 30 β Gift Prompt: Gift. This month, gifts and gift-giving can seem inescapable. Whatβs the most memorable gift, tangible or emotional, you received this year?…
There’s nothing more disconcerting than encountering a problem that you thought you’d solved a long time ago. Makes you wonder if when they say that life is cylic, they mean it just keeps going around in circles.
The next time you hear about a victim of abuse and think of her (or him) as weak, think again. There are things you can understand only when you have experienced them. I used to think a person who was being victimised deserved it for letting themselves be tortured. Perhaps…
You can be grateful for the beauty & also upset at the ugliness. The things that inspire these co-exist & sometimes in the same place. Why would the feelings that these bring up, not be able to occupy the same mind simultaneously? Human beings can feel more than one feeling…
Or perhaps you could see their way of loving is just as valid. Or as good.
@Shal: Valid, yes. Adequate, maybe not.