It’s Mother’s Day today. A day I used to spend with my mum. Until she died. It was more than just the day itself. I enjoyed the weeks leading up to it, planning what I’d buy her, deciding what I’d cook. Mother’s Day falls during my favourite time of year, so I was always keen […]
What can you expect here?
Here you’ll find all my lifestyle blog posts about relationships. Since I’m divorced and a serial dater, you can expect posts about being single when you’re middle aged, how to Internet date when you’re in your 40s and older, advice on getting divorced and how to navigate the turbulence.
But also I’ll write about the other important, non-romantic relationships we have – relationships with our friends, our family, colleagues, online communities and oh, yeah, the often ignored and neglected relationship with ourselves.
No posts here yet? Sorry, this site is pretty new. Check back because my thoughts on relationships will be landing on this page, in all their messiness, very soon.
Relationship Blog Posts
How The Fu@k Do I Meditate?
I learned to meditate the hard way. One of those 10 day retreats that involved silence and a bed made of concrete and a room infested with ants and a bucket for bathing; in India, of course. As the days progressed, we were moved out of the communal meditation hall into to our own, private […]
10 Self-Help Books I Wish I’d Read Sooner
I read self-help books. There. I said it. Yet, before I wrote that, there were several iterations of that intro that included me justifying why I regularly read self-help books. You know, claims that I’m ‘normal’ (whatever that means) and just ‘interested’ in some topics or ‘I read very widely’. You know the lines. You […]