Countdown to Ecstasy: I Know You Want Me To Be Happy

holding on to you even in the dark

The last two relationships, as painful as the endings were, and as devastating as the loneliness was as I confronted being alone again, both taught me valuable lessons. And this is not a silver lining strategy or rationalization.

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Mind the Gap: Listening for the Signals from Your Lover

when your partner is on fire

There is no rescue coming for you. I am not a hero. I am a solitary man, sitting in my own pain around the current gap, and I am working like hell (writing, meditating, exercising, coaching, praying) to heal my own troubled heart.

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