I Had No Idea What I Was Getting Into When I Got Married

I thought I wasn’t the marrying type. The relationship type? Yes. But marriage is so… permanent. Long. Endless. Boring.        I used to lay on the floor for hours, headphones on, music turned up. I would daydream and imagine my future. I pictured a life of work combined with creativity. With love that […]

How Marriage Has Taught Me To Pick A Fight

I met him in our college Spanish class. After admiring him from afar for the better part of a year, we fell into a heated relationship. I was crazy about him.  Our relationship was tumultuous. Until it wasn’t. Eventually the passion was gone. We were living together, making a home and making plans. Three years […]

Bad Behaviour

Today I’m opening up my home (because this place is very much like my home) and inviting someone very special in. This is one of those guests you make a of fuss over. You break out the good wine and the best glasses. You light the candles and put on some funky new music because you really […]

Losing My Breath, Ignoring My Voice

“I’d sooner chew my leg off than be trapped in this, How easy you think of all of this as bittersweet me. I couldn’t taste i,. I’m tired and naked. I don’t know what I’m hungry for, I don’t know what I want anymore.” – REM, Bittersweet Me I had asked for a sign. I […]