Category: Writings
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“I Love You, But…”
“Honey, I Love You BUT…” is NOT a declaration of love. Joy Stevens Your partner is constantly belittling you and abusing you while hiding behind a guise of love. The “I love you but…” person is a clever abuser. You are being manipulated in a power play. You are probably confused and often feeling guilty.…
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Grieve Your Loss
Give yourself the time you need to come to terms with the end of your marriage. There is no way to predict how long the process will take. Everyone copes differently. The grieving process is not a straight line. You won’t find that each day is better than the one before. You may think that…
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Abuser Tricks
The following is a list of behaviors that may indicate a potential batterer. It is not the purpose of the listing to imply that every person with some of these attributes is a batterer or potential batterer. Jealousy At the start of the relationship, an abuser will equate jealously with love. The abuser will question…
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Safety First: Thoughts on leaving your abuser
Safety First: Thoughts on leaving your abuser by: Blain Nelson Leaving an abusive partner is a very difficult thing to do. It frequently feels like you are failing, or destroying your family, or not trying to work things out, or not giving your partner a “second chance.” It hurts, and it’s scary. Sadly, it is…
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The Origin of April Fool’s Day
Basically no one knows exactly where, when, or why the celebration began. What we do know is that references to ‘All Fool’s Day’ (what April Fool’s Day was first called) began to appear in Europe during the late Middle Ages. All Fool’s Day was a folk celebration and elite participation in it was minimal (which…
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Second Life and Direct Delivery on Marketplace = #fail
Well its been rolled out for a while now, but there don’t seem to be any actual fixes in the works (or if there is, they have not yet been implemented). What am I talking about? Simple Second Life has a external/internal section called MarketPlace that allows in world creators to sell their wears though…