We’re not meant to do it alone.
This knowledge has hit me like a brick to the face. It has changed my entire life outlook, my plans and my perspective.
We are not meant to do it alone.
Wow. Fuck.
When I say I have just had this realisation I’m…
Online dating, face to face dating, blind dating. Oh how we hate it. I know even those of you who say you love it actually hate most aspects of dating.
The endless swiping, generalised conversations, or conversations that get really deep really fast (not actually sure which is worse), the…
I recently had lunch with a friend, she asked about my dating life now I’d moved to Barcelona, and I told her how utterly dull yet eye wateringly frustrating it is. She then told me some of her friends where she lives in Ibiza treat dating as a numbers game…
This is not ok.
Suddenly the face in the mirror has lines and bags and this weird cheek excess that my Grandad had. My body jiggles independent to itself and my hands are definitely betraying my years spent in the sun.
And I’m not the only one.
When the F…
Being a digital nomad sounds great. Loading up a backpack with essentials, grabbing your laptop and travelling the world, new places, new experiences, exploring different cultures.
Sleeping in hostels with ever-changing, interesting people, sharing rides to the airport before catching a flight to the next adventure, exchanging stories over bottles…
What does intimacy look like to you?
Is it sex? Is it physical affection? Is it the comfort in baring your soul to another?
Is intimacy something you consciously look for in your potential relationships or do you primarily look for something else?
Do you look for security, whatever your version of that is? Or do you…
Oh, you gentle souls! You creative geniuses, who broke the mold, moved away from your dull and boring family and hometown because NOBODY UNDERSTANDS YOU!
You are BRAVE! You are AMAZING! You are SO DIFFERENT and CREATIVE! We WISH we could be JUST LIKE YOU.
Congratu-fucking-lations.
Because you know what…
2019 was a big year for me, I set myself up in a great apartment in Morocco and completed some renovations on it myself, and traveled back to England to spend time with family so often that my nephews barely got excited about me coming back. I was also able…
It’s ok to lose your way sometimes.
You take that huge leap away from your normal life, you’ve upended everything you ever knew to be part of your day to day living and now you’re living this strange, weird, wonderful new life.
And you are happy.
Genuinely, truly happy.
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