by Maria Merloni | Jun 20, 2013 | Relationships
The author of a book named “Full Catastrophe Living”, John Kabat-Zinn, refers to “the poignant enormity of our life experience” and suggests mindfulness (being present in each moment) as a means to coping with it. After a recent experience in...
by Maria Merloni | Jun 14, 2013 | Relationships, S.E.X.
As those of you who read my blog regularly know, I rarely go on a rant about anything….and I feel once coming on. Just sayin’ This particular rant got triggered by a post I read the other day, in which a Facebook friend of mine (whom I don’t know...
by Maria Merloni | Jun 11, 2013 | Relationships, Spirituality
That’s what my daughter used to call “divorce” when she was five. When her dad and I got divorced. Interestingly, she was unknowingly reflecting the attitude of our whole society toward divorce. We treat it is if as it were a bad word. Kind of...
by Maria Merloni | Jun 5, 2013 | Relationships, S.E.X.
So then last weekend was when I landed on the name for where my poly partner and I are at: the “sweet spot”. Let me back up a bit. I left off last week telling about our recent round two of concealing, pain, mistrust, revealing, recommitting to...
by Maria Merloni | May 30, 2013 | Relationships
After my (rather dramatic) blogs about my dating experience in my polyamorous relationship, you may have been wondering…well, what happened next? Thankfully, things have settled down quite a bit, so there hasn’t been as much to tell. And, this past...
by Maria Merloni | May 2, 2013 | Relationships, Spirituality
Really?! I don’t know about you, but deep down inside, I have always had a “niggle” about this phrase…something that in my body I could feel I was not okay with, but that I could not put into words… And then, just as I had been writing...
