Relationships
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This video is directed toward men, but could easily be for anyone that was raised by a family, a school, or a culture where they were taught that it was better to stay quiet and get along than to have a personality, a gift, a truth… or really anything that might make the adults around
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Deep within me there has always been a disagreeable person, one that could have stood up to the adults that put me in a box as a child, the bad boss-bitches that made sure I never got ahead, the toxic family members that feared my voice and that hidden will within me that had always
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I’ve never been much of a talker myself, being pretty high up on the scale of introversion, but I used to mistakenly believe that big talkers got ahead in life and so I sold myself short for years because I wasn’t enough to get ahead, even in daily conversation with friends. For all of my
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The toxic masculinity trend is really upsetting. 😣😢🤐 Are we going to cancel men now? Don’t toxic people come in both genders, and in any color, from any country, and any sexual persuasion? Why do so many people try to limit it to gender anyway? She always came so easily, so perfectly responsive to his
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“You love someone who could love you back. Well, they could also hate you back, and that is meaningful.” No one ever said it would be easy, or that the path to love is free of obstruction. As a romance novelist I know this well. If it wasn’t a journey, my books would be twenty
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There’d been a time when I thought I was like a turtle. Every time I stuck my head out of my shell I found five women waiting with two by fours ready to bash my skull in. A lovely picture, I know, but it seriously felt that way. Am I angry, bitter or resentful toward
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Not to get myself into too much trouble, although I’m pretty good at that, but the current culture where we’re pushed so hard to accept ourselves exactly as we are that we neglect to grow is troublesome to me. It’s true that it’s not polite to shame someone for being obese, for example, but is
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When I started this blog, I told myself that I would be a good girl and just post excerpts from my books, and then I went and opened my big mouth by sharing my opinions. That’s gotten me into trouble most of my life, and it probably will again, but oh well. Guess I’m just
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I’ll admit it. I’m not cool. It seems almost everyone is non-monogamist these days. Out of curiosity, I even looked it up on YouTube, and the only arguments I could find for monogamy were from religious sources. I even found a few videos from psychologists saying that we’re better off in polyamorous relationships, since we’re
Darcy Branwyn 