Communication is key. This is how I do it.
This will sound jaded – it may even come as a shock to some – but there is no such thing as happily ever after. At least, not in the conventional definition. By conventional, I mean boy-meets-girl story that ends in marriage, “and they lived happily ever after.” … Read more
I’ve just finished Francis Chan’s Crazy Love. It made me realise that I’ve been living a rather comfortable, convenient Christian life. I have yet to love God with reckless abandon, the way he has loved and continues to love me.… Read more
In my current saga of getting over what-could-have-been, I am coming to realise a few things. I had begun to settle. And although it seemed like he was good enough, I actually deserve better.
I deserve better than a man who seemed to fit the criteria, but actually was just someone who happened to be available.… Read more
From a very young age, I have always been my own person. At age eight, I had opted out of the normal child’s life. Instead of spending breaks playing with other kids, I spent my lunch hour reading in the library.… Read more
You want to have a partner, someone to go home to. I see no fault in that. You seek to have someone to hold and to love, and there is no shame in that.
Perhaps you seek someone who will care for you.… Read more
I have survived more than a few painful heartbreaks. Most of them were messy. The more recent ones were quite subdued and highly private. But it took this one last painful experience to make me realise – there is beauty in suffering. … Read more
He told me I’m beautiful.
He was the only man I knew who had ever said that to me.
In my adult life, there have been men who had told me I’m very pretty or attractive. That I’m highly date-able, sexy, or even hot (which I don’t exactly consider a compliment, but we’ll save that for some other time). … Read more
… Read moreSo the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near —
“Ah,” said the fox. “I shall cry.”
“It is your own fault,” said the little prince. “I never wished you any sort of harm, but you wanted me to tame you…”
“Yes, that is so,” said the fox.
