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I woke up Saturday morning still reeling from the ridiculous fight Wladimir and I had when we returned home the previous evening. I was particularly hurt, because the fight felt out of the blue: we actually had a really nice Friday. We’d had some good conversations and I felt connected. We’d spent the afternoon walking […]
Read More >>It’s been years since the five of us were together for the holidays. So much has happened for each one of us since then. My children became adults. I died and re-built myself from scratch. Looking back now, I see that this pause became a kind of a reset. We had to explode apart, to […]
Read More >>2024 will remain a milestone year in my life’s story. Roughly a year ago – in November of 2023 – my husband and I made a decision that felt insane at the time, but has proven to be among the best decisions we have ever made. We decided to give up most of our possessions […]
Read More >>I spent most of last week in great irritation toward my husband. Every once in a while a powerful anger and frustration rise in me. In those moments it’s hard to believe that just a few days prior my feelings were those of peaceful contentment. The changes in moods do not surprise nor bother me. […]
Read More >>“Familial love is Stockholm Syndrome… We need people to survive so we love people to survive.” A friend sent me this post by @makingfriendsonline over the weekend. My friend has recently lost her mother. After years of torment, she says her mother’s death felt like a relief. She felt that this post reflected the many […]
Read More >>“It’s so nice to see a well-loved woman!” Deep in that liminal space between night and day, on my morning walk through a local park last Friday, I heard a voice behind me. I turned around and saw a neighbor from the community where we reside, a Canadian woman named Stefania walking her dog. We […]
Read More >>If I had left my husband when I thought I wanted to, I would have missed a unique opportunity to learn about myself through the mirror of my partner. I’d have not grown in awareness. I’d have not become who I am today. It is very popular to end a relationship when you are unhappy. […]
Read More >>There are a few recurring themes in my fights with my husband. When I remember to divert my thoughts from what is wrong with him, or from putting him down in retaliation for my pain, and instead I actually look at what my pain tells me about me, the themes emerge quite clearly. It always […]
Read More >>I am a US citizen and I vote in presidential elections. I haven’t always voted, although I have the right since I became naturalized in my early 20s. When I was younger, the whole election process felt incomprehensible. My parents, raised in the USSR, did not model voting or being empowered in their civil duties […]
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