Collection
A 3-volume Proust
1983 - 2011
London, UK
These battered, sand-strewn volumes are emblematic of a long love relationship which has recently ended. Soon after I married my wife, we got into an addictive Proust habit - I used to read the novel out loud to her, especially when we were on holiday. The bulk of it was read during successive summers on the Isla de Tavira in the Algarve - we would walk out to an isolated stretch of sand, build...
A lesson or desperation?
15/01/2026
Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Why I thought that I can change you or even accept you fully? For a long time I was fooling myself with illusions which I was meticulously trying to swap with thoughts that I believed I could ignore. As said, I beared a lot of shame, uncertainty, anxiousness and endless doubting. You felt like a soulmate but now I know it was just a trauma triggering. Something so familiar, so “at home”. Despit...
Missing Morning Coffee
April 1, 2026
Lowell, United States
It all started out warm, friendly, and intense. Amazing time away together, great conversation, mutual support. It suddenly ended because they couldn't take on a relationship, "...like this," but they still wanted to be friends, then ghosted me. I am told they are an Avoidant personality. I don't know and can't spend time analyzing it anymore. I am moving on and learning from what clues I have ...
The Claddagh Ring and the Celtic Cross
May 3, 2026
Alcalde, United States
We met when I was fourteen and she was thirteen.
At that age, you do not understand when something important has begun. You only know that some people feel familiar before you understand why.
She was that person for me.
We grew up together through awkward teenage years, first jobs, college classes, and late-night conversations about futures we were too young to fully imagine. We married in 1999...