(From my latest podcast episode. Click here to listen: https://apple.co/2BmmB6o) One listener wrote the following: “In short, loneliness encompasses my life from the past 3-6 months, but really even throughout …
Unconsciously, I’d thought this was a performance. You do the hard prep work, you birth the child and then… Apparently I was waiting for someone to applaud and hand me flowers. They never showed up.
I needed to be alone–it was all too much and just so strange.
Is a rock solid romance a real thing? The quick answer is a sharp, “No”. Now listen in.
It’s incredibly idealistic and a matter of privilege that I can explore the blessings of isolation and also soak them up. I don’t pretend to have answers for anyone for whom this currently reality is crushing.
These are reflections.
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So often we try to condense our world into bullet points. It’s easier that way until it’s not. Our lives are a mess of complex pieces and the words we …