by Maria Merloni | Mar 14, 2014 | S.E.X., Spirituality
I’ve been on “sabbatical” for a while. I haven’t had a desire to write. Although, recently, I realized it’s not because I truly do not have a desire to write. It’s because I was having a competing desire to hide. To hide from being...
by Maria Merloni | Jan 9, 2014 | Relationships, S.E.X.
You know how people have “staples” in their diet? Well, I have recently re-learned the benefits of what I highly, highly recommend as a daily staple in your relationship: naked cuddling. First, although it may sound self-explanatory, allow me to...
by Maria Merloni | Nov 23, 2013 | Relationships, S.E.X.
I know many of you have been reading my blogs from the beginning of my primary relationship, which started over a year ago now, and were privy to every excruciating detail of the struggles I have had. It’s my first real polyamorous relationship, and I/we had...
by Maria Merloni | Oct 4, 2013 | Relationships, S.E.X.
…and I am fine. Some of you who have been following my blog right along already know who Jane is. She’s the woman I gave the fake name to that my partner did some withholding about. That triggered the f*ck out of me for various reasons in the past....
by Maria Merloni | Sep 28, 2013 | S.E.X., Spirituality
Do you know what projection is? Being a therapist and life coach, I see it often. It is the unconscious defense mechanism that people use when they take some part of themselves, project it onto someone else, and notice it in the other. Lately, it’s been coming...
by Maria Merloni | Sep 20, 2013 | S.E.X., Spirituality
Just the other day I had yet another conversation with a friend who said: “I used to think I was a lesbian.” I can’t tell you how many women my age have told me that same thing. And I can relate, because there was a period of time during which I...