…I read an article on Salon.com this morning that sent the subject of marriage hurtling back to the forefront of my overtired brain. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that in this particular case, the idea of marriage is more of a jumping-off point for the thoughts I’m about to [...]
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And you thought I was done blogging about marriage….
Posted in Blathering, Love, Men suck, Neuroses, tagged jackwagonry, Marriage on April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Truth to power
Posted in Blathering, Neuroses, Status report, tagged awe, quotations on March 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
. . .You’re like a dog at the dump, baby- you’re just lickin’ at an empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it. -Richard from Texas, in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat [...]
Mirror, mirror
Posted in Family, Health, Love, Neuroses, Places I've been, tagged jackwagonry on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I wind down my discussion of NPD, I wanted to share a few final thoughts…. First off, I have found that part of the recovery process for anyone who has experienced this (and it is a process) necessitates shifting your focus away from all the things the narcissistic parent did to traumatize/damage you and [...]
Love is a battlefield
Posted in Family, Health, Love, Neuroses, Places I've been, tagged jackwagonry on March 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, I devoted many words to Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD. My dad, although never formally diagnosed, shows enough of the symptoms that I think it’s safe to say he’s got it and has had it for most of his adult life. I wrote a lot yesterday about what it was like to grow up [...]
Cracking the mirror
Posted in Family, Health, Love, Neuroses, Places I've been, Travel, tagged jackwagonry on March 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Fathers, be good to your daughters/Daughters will love like you do… -John Mayer One week ago, I returned home from a trip to the town where I grew up, Bellevue, Washington. I had not been out to visit in nearly three years, although my mother and father had made a couple of trips to visit [...]
So what does it mean?
Posted in Blathering, Love, Neuroses, tagged Marriage on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Post note: I started writing this post well over a month ago, and then life intervened and I’m just now getting around to finishing it. Look for more blogular action from my corner of the internet soon. I’m back on the marital soapbox, as it were. With today’s little post, I plan to take a [...]
Bridezilla, or the Cult of the Bride
Posted in Blathering, Love, Neuroses, tagged Marriage on January 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For my first little commentary on the institution of marriage, I’d like to be somewhat linear and start with that ritual that is typically the precursor to a marriage: the wedding. More specifically, I’d like to discuss how generally horrified I am at how downright ridonkulous weddings have become in this day and age.
From this day forward
Posted in Blathering, Love, Neuroses, tagged Marriage on January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t say I didn’t warn you! I have marriage on the brain — not in that unbearably vehement, nagging, hyperventilating, psychotic Bridezilla sort of way (yuck) but rather in a more philosophical, analytical sort of way. Let’s be real and consider the source for a moment: me. Me, who in the space of a decade [...]
A diamond is forever?
Posted in Blathering, Love, Neuroses on January 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I got some pretty positive, supportive responses to my post earlier this week about my “leftover” engagement ring, including a really great reality check from my old high school friend, Leonard, in the form of a link to this article from the February 1982 edition of the Atlantic Monthly. Though nearly 30 years old, the [...]
De profundis
Posted in Books, Neuroses, Random thoughts, Religion, Status report on July 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I had a difficult time falling asleep last night. I forced myself to bed early, which was probably part of the problem, and tossed and turned for a good 2-3 hours before I finally drifted off. I took a break from the tossing and turning at one point and went to sit on my patio [...]
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