Old Habits and the King of Wishful Thinking

Tweet You’d think that with three years of a totally obsessive and self-destructive crush behind me, I’d have learned my lesson. Especially with everything else that I started to learn in high school. Well, you’d be wrong. I still had a habit of fixating on people. Usually people I was interested in dating and horribly… Continue reading Old Habits and the King of Wishful Thinking

Crush Genesis

Tweet With my nearly three year long destructive crush fading behind me, I discovered I had a whole lot more energy to dedicate toward thinking about relationships with other people. High school, with the plethora of pop culture mythology I had firmly loaded in my head by the time I started, struck me as the… Continue reading Crush Genesis

Caught Up, Swept Away, Crushed, Whole Again

Tweet At the beginning it’s easy to get caught up. Caught up in the rush of the crush. In the glorious spin of possibilities. In the wild imaginings of what most certainly will be. Our hearts and minds soar, our heads spin, our toes barely touch the ground. Sure there is fear and worry, but… Continue reading Caught Up, Swept Away, Crushed, Whole Again

Hump Day Crush: No Magic Words

Tweet Over the years I’ve seen a lot of people–myself included–get caught up in the idea of the “perfect moment.” You know what I’m talking about: those movie-induced fantasies of big speeches, grand romantic gestures and fairy tale endings. Be they weddings, proposals, apologies or what have you, the idea is ingrained in us quite… Continue reading Hump Day Crush: No Magic Words