How to Deal with an Emotional Vampire: The 5 Essential Steps!
Emotional Vampires: they suck the energy right out of you and leave you feeling drained and low. These people come in many forms: they could be your boss, your best friend, your lover, your colleague, your neighbour, your ex-girlfriend or boyfriend. Emotional vampires are everywhere. Do you suspect that you have an emotional vampire somewhere […]
Are Adults Who Move Back in with Their Parents Just Giant Losers?
I saw my ex yesterday and he looked terrible The worst I’ve ever seen him. He’s 32 and has been living at home with his parents for the last two years – the time we have been apart. It’s something I just cannot understand. I absolutely love my parents, but as an adult – there […]
My Partner’s Criticisms of Me are Leading to Low Self Esteem (I Think)
Low self-esteem I definitely have it. But what is it anyway? I had to look it up. From Wikipedia: “Self-esteem is a term used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth.” I guess in my own mind I don’t have a very high value of myself. Why […]
How to ask for forgiveness when you’ve made a mistake
Messed up? We all make mistakes in life, most of us every single day. Does it make you a bad person? An idiot? Evil? A lax worker? A bad father? A shitty girlfriend? No – It makes you human. You will make mistakes. Here is what to do about it. 1. Assume responsibility when you’ve […]
How to Spot an Emotional Vampire in 10 Steps
Emotional vampires: I have one in my life. I have been one. I see them every day. What are the signs that one of your nearest and dearest is sapping the life out of you? If you know an emotional vampire, I am sorry for you. But how can you be sure? Well, I have […]
The One Trick I am Using to Stop My Negative Thoughts from Destroying Me
I have this problem. At night when I go to bed, my mind is filled with self-admonishing thoughts: I run though my day and any mistakes I’ve made become amplified, and I fixate on what I might have done differently. My thoughts aren’t just reserved for what I did wrong that particular day, sometimes I […]
The Man Cave: My Partner Won’t Come Out! What do I do?
My partner has been giving me a very hard time lately – a very hard time. He has been sleeping on the couch for the last two weeks and two days, not that I am counting. I really can’t stand when we fight like this – I really just want the fight to be over, […]
Ode To A Dumbass
Correlating in a cruel and clueless way I wondered out aloud Who is this person I’m with today This brute, this dick, this clown? You think you’re smart, you think you’re wise I find you so obtuse You’re beautiful but dumb as nuts You have very little use I wish that I hated you […]
A Poem About a Man I have Forgotten
“Horrible Angel” Horrible angel who waits between my sheets Winged creature with dirty feet Neither nervously pensive nor discreet Every night he disturbs my sleep Murderous saviour he poisons my cup The sweetness revolts me, slow and abrupt I hate him and love him, I want him to see That happily trapped, I still wanna […]
The Awful Truth About A Woman’s Obsession
You just cannot enter into an obsession lightheartedly. Obsession begins as an interest and escalates into an all-consuming heat that encases all the flesh in hot, winding flashes of uncontrollable desire. At least, that is what obsession meant to Carmen. Life was debased to simply delving between her obsessions, and there was no going back […]
A Crappy Little Love Sick Poem
I tried to follow your advice And heed your clear direction I tried to force your hand this time That’s only my perception And if the world ended tomorrow I would have regret I’d change the way I treated you The game, the match and set It really didn’t all go well But some of […]
I Wish I Could: Control My Temper
I wish i could control my temper In the Beginning I never yelled I was so nice But now I am awful all the time Now he is trying harder And I feel guilty Awful awful awful I don’t know what to do With this guilt Some days I want to be with him forever […]
My Asshole Boyfriend: What Did He Do to My Washing?!
Awful, awful, awful. And while you’re at it – AWFUL! This guy is almost too much to bear. Joe seemed to be in a cheerier mood and called me several times on the phone while I was at work, with various pieces of news. He then proclaimed that he was going to tidy the house […]