dating
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011. Taysie
The Myers Brigg personality test talks about something it calls The Grip. It is a kind of ‘stress’ & the response we have to it. My relationship with Taysie feels like that sometimes. I am in the grip of her not because she is manipulative but because of my feelings for her and their complexity.
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10.0 Kate
Joining a dating site with intent is scary. I’d peeped before to see what the future might look like and even that was difficult. This time, it was for real. e-Harmony is not cheap but it means those people that pay are serious about trying to find someone. It’s not about one-night-stands (ONS) or a…
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O.7 The Priest’s Housekeeper
How long can you hold a candle for someone? After 40 years, it really isn’t anything other than a distant memory. Lives have been lived, new lives started. It doesn’t stop those moments being an inflexion point that cannot be forgotten. This is the story of one of them.
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0.6 A liminal state
Def: 1. occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. “I was in the liminal space between past and present” Liminal spaces in the physical sense are those places that “occupy the spaces between” – railway concourses, passageways
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0.5 Only straight lines
“Be a fool. For love. For yourself. What you think might possibly make you happy – even for a little while – whatever the cost or good sense might dictate.” Anthony Bourdain.
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0.3 2D love and rejection
How does one shine in a 2D world of dating sites? It is hard. There are many ‘looks don’t matter’ statements from the women. Men talk of their empathy, presence and stature. But in the 2D world, the main access point is the photograph. What does the other person look like? It’s the entry gate…
Messages to Nowhere: A diary of limerence 