Posts under ‘relationships’

Love comes in different shapes and sizes. It can be the split-second look of a stranger that hits you like an electric shock but is forgotten just as quickly. It can be that warm and safe feeling of belonging and mutual understanding. It can also be that consuming desperation when you can’t eat, can’t sleep, can’t think of anything [...]

On Wednesday night I had a… let’s call it phone conversation with mom, which solved the whole question of when and how to celebrate Christmas with her and the kids. It’s easy: we won’t. Not to get into the ugly details, let’s just say that the conversation ended with me saying mom, you are not [...]

Okay okay, I will stay out of it. It is just a bit difficult because, as I said, she’s my mother and I can’t just dump her like I could had she been just about anybody else. In fact, the way she’s been behaving since her divorce, I would be happy not talking to her [...]

What would you do, if someone you care for a lot is having what you consider to be inappropriate contact  with the partner to someone else for whom you also care a lot? The contact is not and has not been, as far as I know, physical. From what I’ve been told, all the flirty [...]

In case the irony in my last post was unnoticed, I just want to clarify. I do NOT think that gay marriage should be illegal. I do NOT think that there is anything wrong or strange with homosexuality. and so on. I don’t even see anything wrong in a gay couple raising a child – [...]