Collection
An Exe Axe
Berlin
She was the first woman that I let move in with me. All my friends thought I needed to learn to let people in more. A few months after she moved in, I was offered to travel to the US. She could not come along. At the airport we said goodbye in tears, and she was assuring me she could not survive three weeks without me. I returned after three weeks, and she said: “I fell in love with someone els...
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...