by sarahdenae | Dec 1, 2022 | Conflict, Vulnerability
When I realized on date two that this thing between me and my man might actually become something real and great I began to have flashes of the future when our human foibles would cause friction. I knew to expect it because it’s just what happens. There is no escape....
by sarahdenae | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Obviously, there is a spectrum of feelings, their intensity, their origin, and ways to handle them. For this post, I’m going with a binary for the sake of argument. One type of feeling is like a visiting mosquito that can be smashed and the other is like the pull of...
by sarahdenae | Nov 19, 2022 | Sovereignty
My partner and I don’t live together (yet), but I do spend a lot of time at his place. In fact, I slept over six nights in a row last week. Many of those nights he wasn’t there or he was awake in the living room while I slept in the bedroom. You see, he just...
by sarahdenae | Nov 17, 2022 | Gifts of Sobriety
When I got sober, my whole world opened up, but it happened over time. After the initial period of adjustment (a whole other story as you well know), I gradually came to realize how much more LIFE was available to me. This was my biggest motivation in the first...