Tag: Relationships
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When Bad Things Return to Good People
The three of us Law-of-Attractioners were talking about how people who aren’t good for us, when we choose not to be with them any longer, just seem to not be around so much. The transition to the “not-so-much” usually takes more than a few minutes, though. In some cases, it’s months. In other cases, even…
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Exes, Marriage, and Karma
I’ve observed that karma usually has a special way of working out for people who lie or cheat—or lie and cheat. It’s called marriage. At the time of a break-up, the prospect of a lover marrying someone else—whether in a few months or few years–generally is met with despair. But I’ve learned differently. I’ve actually…
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As Good as your Word: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Held Against You
I believe that a person’s word should be good enough. I refuse to put my hand on a Bible and swear to tell the truth. I refuse to swear to tell the truth, period. I believe that my word is good enough. In fact, I find the act of having to “swear” I’m telling the…
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Squished Bread, Scrambled Eggs, and Mercury in Retrograde
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. Mercury’s in retrograde again. That comes too often, doesn’t it? Revisits and relooks and problems with communication, transportation, and computers. Some things have shifted around this past week. It reminds me of throwing groceries in the back of the car and getting home…
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I Am So Fucked but Let Me Document It Lest I Forget or Don’t Believe It Later
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. Is it going to be like this with every man I form a connection with? And I’m not talking about sex. This did happen with my no-sex-but-really-wanted-to guy and did not happen, for example, with the boy I was with a while back.…
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Am I?
Maybe it’s because I, for some reason, equate intimidating with domineering and I know they’re not the same but that that quirk is from something in my childhood. I’m also a relatively quiet person, which I don’t equate to intimidating, perhaps because it’s loud, aggressive, in-your-face people who have often intimidated me. But…I am frequently…
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Something to Offer
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. I don’t remember ever hearing a man say aloud what he felt in terms of what he had to offer a relationship with me…until these past few years. It seems that it was always about what I had to offer—a wife who worked…
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Chakra Changes
While flattened on the sofa, too sick to move and yet my mind was racing, I realized that I’ve had some significant changes in my chakras over the past 4 months. Funny that I’d be thinking about my energy centers when I have zip for energy. My root (first) chakra has really opened/strengthened in a…
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What I Want for Mother’s Day
What I want for Mother’s Day this year is…well, not necessarily for Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day is the next “holiday” for gift-getting, and why do I think I need a holiday for this? I want a honey-to-do. Well, that didn’t sound quite right either. Okay, true, but…blush…. I’ll start over. From the Bookshelf A Reverence…
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Mating Rituals
I’ll probably implode tomorrow. Beltane. Moon in Scorpio. Full Moon energies. Everything reeks of mating rituals, so obviously, they’re on my mind. Grrrrr. (And that’s a “Grrrr. Argh.” Not a flirty growl.) For the past few years, I’ve been swinging insanely between do I want to date or do I not want to date. Depending…
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Jump or Be Pushed
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising. In another of my own personal version of “Groundhog Day: The Movie,” I woke yet again to Hinder’s “Lips of an Angel.” Different time, different station, same song…every day this week, including weekends. I hated the song the first zillion times I heard it,…
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Why Hair Stylists Make Me Nervous
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Rising. I wasn’t always nervous around hair stylists. And I’ve never been nervous about a bad cut or color because it grows out and it’s fixable. Most hair mistakes are easily fixable but some things aren’t, and that’s why I’ve sometimes been uncomfortable around them. Yes,…
