I Don’t Celebrate Halloween, Can I Leave?
“I don’t think he ever actually liked me,” I told a friend last week. Incredulous, he asked me, then why was he with you?
“I don’t think he ever actually liked me,” I told a friend last week. Incredulous, he asked me, then why was he with you?
I went to a party with people who practice polyamory.
I ran into someone who last saw me before I went through the biggest war of my life. I had to think about how to tell my story.
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What does falling in love feel like? I don’t remember. I’m not talking about sex. I’m talking about the compromises people make for companionship.
I met people I had ghosted. I was contacted by those who ghosted me. Maybe all ghosts bear gifts.
A poem about being knotted in love –
“You had me tied up in knots
turning over your every word
twisting each smile,
into shapes of affection”
April has been a lonely month. Housekeeping always is.
New friends, new kinds of friendships, new definitions of support and ways to engage with others lead to a new me. New life?
Love. It got so much harder with age. The finding of it, the keeping of it. But mostly, being okay with it.