Posts under ‘I'm a big ruminating cow’

The Long-Awaited Tiger Woods Post

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"Is Tiger Woods a sex addict?"
"What do you think about Tiger?"
"Aren't you going to write about Tiger Woods?"
The questions have been peppering my inbox, but I've been avoiding the topic.
On the one hand, I love a good celebrity sex scandal, both because I can relate [...]

Experience, Strength and Hope

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A little less than a year ago, I moved my blog to its own URL, and when I did so, I had the opportunity to reread many of my old posts as I updated broken links (still not all fixed, by the way). As I did, [...]

Recovery is Sexy

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It was raining the night I first kissed my husband. The wind was hissing and howling through the bare branches of the trees, rattling the last of the dead leaves still clinging to their posts. Before we kissed, we twined our hands together [...]

Pick Up the Phone

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I was struggling today with several issues that have been swimming around in my head lately: my relationship with anger and rage, the place of vulnerability in my recovery, the harsh and insidious voice of my inner critic, my past emotionally and verbally abusive relationships and the [...]

On the Lighter Side…

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Whew! Between the online 12 step work I'm doing, my (slow) progress through my issues around this election and the thought provoking questions you all have given me around one of my recent posts, I'm pretty brain fried. So, I thought it would be fun [...]

My Husband Is Still a Sex Addict

This post is both the third in a (proposed) series on how I came to be where I am around the current election (um, how it fits in there will make sense later) and is cross posted at the Second Road.

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One evening four years ago, my husband [...]

Clearing out the Belly Lint

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I generally stay away from posting about news, for several reasons:

This blog was designed for the purposes of gazing at my own lovely and fascinating navel. Why venture outside the bounds of my beautiful belly lint, unless news stories reflect on said belly lint?
There are two sides to every [...]