Category Relationships

There isn’t time for that. It’s too late. That can’t be done. You’ll never amount to anything. You have peaked. There’s nowhere else to go but down.

This is your mountaintop and frankly, it’s not that high.

But you’re almost 40, life is getting harder and the chance for happiness is over. You failed. The picture-perfect life you imagined sadly, will not be.

You better accept it, suck it up and keep going to a job you hate, to barely make ends meet and to be in a relationship with someone who makes you miserable. This is your life.

And the Devil is grinning.

I ask you. Are you gonna lie down and take it, or will you fight back and wipe that smirk off his face?

I, of course, can’t help but picture Tom Ellis from Lucifer when I wrote that...

It was a normal day.

Well, as normal as any other Sunday had started lately anyway.

Little did we know that in less than an hour our world would once again be turned upside down.

After having a nice afternoon brunch together, that he had kindly made, my ex had another relapse.

His bipolar/schizoaffective brain had taken over (thanks to a little caffeine) and we were once again faced with a person we didn’t know. And a situation we weren’t sure how to navigate.

Even though we’ve been through it before, many times, it had been a while, we had hoped we’d never see this face again.

But alas, anyone out there who has dealt with a mental illness knows, it never really goes away.

So there we were, having just eaten and realizing that the conversation was taking a less than i...