by Maria Merloni | Feb 25, 2013 | Relationships
The topic of jealousy has been coming up lately, as my partner and I have both been starting to date others in addition to each other. We have each felt a twinge of jealousy at times, nothing major. And I would say that both of us tend to be generally less prone to...
by Maria Merloni | Feb 20, 2013 | Spirituality
Recently, while in California visiting my best friend, I watched this great documentary called “Happy” (they have it on Netflix). The narrator is Marci Shimoff, who has written a number of books on happiness, including “Happy For No Reason”,...
by Maria Merloni | Feb 16, 2013 | Relationships, S.E.X.
Tomorrow is my partner’s birthday. Well, technically for him, it’s his birthday now, because he’s in Japan. And even though I can’t spend his birthday with him, I am incredibly happy! I am having an amazing, embodied experience of...
by Maria Merloni | Feb 4, 2013 | Relationships
My blog the other day, “Jealousy of Time”, brought up some “yeah, buts” in some of you…understandably so. We have all been taught- by our parents, by the larger society, by the collective, that relationships are a certain way: If...
by Maria Merloni | Jan 31, 2013 | Relationships
I had some great questions about “jealousy of time” from a reader the other day. Since I’ve been writing so much about poly relationships, I assumed it was about jealousy in that context, but it wasn’t actually. It was more of a general...
