by Maria Merloni | Sep 18, 2016 | Miscellaneous, S.E.X.
I’m being a little facetious here, but not really. I mean, yes, adding a dimension of kink into my life several years ago as a regular thing has most definitely improved the quality of my life. I’ve decided it is an essential element for me to be truly...
by Maria Merloni | Sep 8, 2016 | Relationships
Last night I was so scared. I’ve had a couple of really big losses lately- one, an actual death, and one that just feels like the other person has died. More specifically, my brother died fairly unexpectedly in his sleep less than two weeks ago. And a...
by Maria Merloni | Aug 10, 2016 | Relationships, Spirituality
It hurts. Letting go of a Beloved always hurts. It really doesn’t get easier with “practice” and life experience, does it? Not for me anyway. Last week I had an ending of relationship with one of my lovers. And even though I was the one who...
by Maria Merloni | Jul 31, 2016 | Relationships, Self Love
I’ve been thinking about how we use numbers to evaluate people a lot. And it’s not a good thing. Numbers for scores on tests. Numbers for height. Numbers on a scale. Numbers for age. And there’s always a “good” number and a...
by Maria Merloni | Jul 21, 2016 | S.E.X.
In recent discussions, with both myself 😉 and others, I’ve noticed that there’s a general assumption that lovemaking is lovemaking and kink is kink. There’s an implication that real intimacy, real connection, only happens with vanilla sex: that...
