I’m in the midst of reading Alain de Botton’s Essays in Love and just finished reading Love: A polemic. Reading each one has, in its own way, made me question the entire “culture of love” that exists. While reading, especially de Botton, I kept laughing out loud. And I was laughing out loud because the [...]
On Divorce
Ugh. Such an ugly word. Partially because when you get married you have “happily ever after” ringing in your ears and you’re certain that you couldn’t possibly end up on the wrong side of the 50% bracket. Divorce is for other people. Silly people. People who just don’t have it together like you do, right?
Wrong.
Now [...]
Life History - Romantic Ponderings
Does anyone ever really forget a lost love?
As I age, I realize that I’ve logged in a lot of relationships over a relatively short span of time. All seemingly characterized by intense, fiery trajectories that ultimately end in the same way - burnout. That and I have a long string of “potential relationships that never [...]
