Image credit: Photo by BGLewandowski on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I rashly went out Halloween costume shopping a few days ago. I'm not sure what I was thinking. Well, I know I needed to pick up a costume for my daughter — Yes, a few days shy of Halloween. I'm totally on top of [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
Halloween Haikus
Their rough, jagged faces glare menacingly at me, teeth bared in fierce snarls. The sweet delights tempt, but I pause, hand trembling. Jack-o-lanterns watch!
Laughter
Image credit: Photo by .sanden. on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "So at my meeting last night, I wanted to say that sex addicts are hot, but there were a few newcomers, and newcomers don't think that's so funny," I told my husband Mark as we were getting ready for bed. Mark laughed. He knows [...]
My Denial
Image credit: Photo by mon of the loin on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I first found out that my husband Mark was a sex addict, I threw myself into the thing that had always saved me in the past: research. I had graduated at the top of my high school class, gone to [...]
Smooth as Silk
Image credit: Photo by Jesse Draper on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Silk is a sexy fabric. It's smooth and soft and falls in glistening ripples like waves. Years ago, shortly before I moved to another state to be with Mark, I sent him a pair of silk boxers as a gift, and he wrote [...]
My Husband’s Denial
Image credit: Photo by ortizmj12 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons One morning, eight years ago, I turned on the desktop computer my husband Mark and I shared and called up the keystroke logging software I had installed. Mark didn't know that the computer was secretly taking notes on every character he typed, and I [...]
A Problem Is a Problem
Image credit: Photo by Esther_G on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Eight years ago, in spite of the fact that we were both exhausted by caring for our infant son, I found that my husband Mark was staying up later and later at night. He had to be up at 5 a.m. to get ready [...]
Cutting Past the Crap
Image credit: Photo by misterbisson on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I went to a great 12 Step meeting this week. A lovely group of women, some of whom I'd never met, sat together and shared the kind of things we usually share as partners of sex addicts. We share about things like incest, physically [...]
Janie Can’t Make Up Her Mind Haikus
Halloween creeps up… Janie stretches her arms wide, shouts, “I’ll be a bat!” “For certain, a bat! Unless I should be a witch. Or maybe a cat.” “I’ll be a princess! A vampire! A zombie! A princess zombie!” Mama thinks she’ll be whatever’s left in the store on Halloween eve!
I Could Write a Book
Image credit: Photo by beX out loud on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few weeks ago, as I was poking around the Internet, I saw an ad that caught my eye. "Turn your blog into a book!" it announced. "Hm," I thought, "Come to think of it, I could print my blog and bind [...]
