This doesn’t necessarily need to be agreed upon. — I left my ex-husband one day and never looked back. However, it took almost two years to finally get the final divorce papers completed. During those two years, my ex and I had no contact at all. We were over — with absolutely no chance of getting back together. …

Accepting happiness and expecting happiness are two different things. — Do you ever have those moments where you get totally bogged down by the relationship upkeep required to maintain a functioning, healthy relationship? Do you ever just want to quit and run away? I do. I’m admitting it now. And I would consider myself to be a person who is…

Time tells. — There are many out there who believe people are capable of change. And then there are those who believe that a leopard can never change his or her spots. When I decided to meet my ex-husband for a casual breakfast after 5 years of estrangement, I was genuinely curious to…

“I’m really seeing a lot of butts, mom!” — I love watching the Olympics on TV just like so many other people around the world. When I was a young girl I loved it as well — especially women’s figure skating, gymnastics, swimming, and diving. Imagine my absolute delight this year when my own daughter showed a keen interest…

I’m still on the fence about mine. — I’ve never made a sex video. I’ve never really thought much about making one. The closest I’ve come to anything close to a sex video is some dirty, sexy polaroids that were taken during my first marriage. Anyway, I’m now wondering if I’ve missed out on something because it seems…

This might not be complete nonsense after all. — The method of tea leaf reading involves looking at the placement and formations of tea leaves remaining in your teacup to try and gather information about the past, present, and future of your life. Per Wikipedia, this practice of tea leaf reading is also known as Tasseography, which is a…

Relationships don’t really need marriage as much as they may want marriage. — The concept of marriage was birthed thousands of years ago. Its primary purpose was to bind women to men, and thus guarantee that a man’s children were truly his biological heirs. Through marriage, a woman essentially became a man’s property. Obviously, gender roles have changed and women have come a…

I was shocked. — I once dated a man who was 34 years old and throughout the course of our relationship, I discovered that he could not read a single word. As a fairly well-educated daughter of British parents who delighted in proper grammar, experiencing someone who could not read was totally foreign to…

The mind is an incredibly powerful thing. — I once wrote an article about how I feel awkward using ‘dirty talk’ during sex. That’s still the case — although as I’m learning more about how dirty talk actually works psychologically, I’m feeling much more comfortable with the idea — and also figuring out when I’m not comfortable with…