Love Addiction

Can You Be Friends With Your Ex Right Away?

by Mhaya July 5, 2011
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Most people think you can’t be friends with your ex right after the relationship ends. Mhaya challenges this assumption, even if it won’t end up the way she hopes.

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Love Addict: Do You Just Know?

by Mhaya June 23, 2011
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When it’s true love, do you know right away, or do you figure it out over time?

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Love Addict: Addiction

by Mhaya May 31, 2011
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There’s so much fear that lies in the nighttime, where you no longer have that other head to turn and face, or the phone call to finish up the day, or even the good-night text. The daily sharing is gone; you must sit with your worries and trials and beautiful moments with only yourself, or in passing conversations with friends three days after the fact.

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Love Addict: How To F*ck Up a Relationship

by Mhaya May 24, 2011
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1. Decide he or she didn’t respond in the way you needed them too. 2. Demand he/she spend time with you when you want, but that they should be understanding when you need your alone time. 3. Tell them you have different communication styles that just don’t “jive.” 4. Start to get really paranoid when they take a couple of hours to call you back instead of a couple of minutes. 5. Watch it all unravel.

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Love Addict: The Pregnancy Dilemma

by Mhaya March 28, 2011
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There were a lot of reasons I didn’t want to be pregnant. Nothing life-altering or anything that would win my case against the judgments of others. I had just started school. I’d been with my job for just a year, and though the six months paid leave would’ve been great, I felt as if I’d be taking advantage. The guy I was seeing was just a guy I was seeing.

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Love Addict: Ode to Him

by Mhaya February 22, 2011
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You remember and buy tickets to concerts I mentioned long ago and forgot not a day later – You religiously rub my head as I fall asleep – You love to kiss me, touch me, hold my hand in public and utter, “wait, there’s people around, huh?” – You handle my pull-backs with grace – Your eyes were the saddest I’ve ever seen eyes those mornings. Read the full article…

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Love Addict: Writing the Personal

by Mhaya February 8, 2011
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There are so many jumbled feelings inside of me at the moment, and I’m not sure where to turn or what to say. I know that in writing about my truths, my pain, my ups and downs, that it hurts someone else, even when he holds the line. It may not show in that moment, but days, weeks later it springs forth in a conversation, as a look of surprise grips even him, as if he hadn’t really allowed it in until that moment.

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Love Addict: Jealousy

by Mhaya February 3, 2011
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My stomach is suddenly in knots, though not the fear ones or the sadness ones but the ones that make you wanna puke or move or do both at the same time. The ones that make you scream out, “how is this possible?” how could this one or that one forget me so easily or let go of me so quickly? The ones that nastily want revenge, to show how little this one or that one means to me.

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Love Addict: Anger

by Mhaya January 25, 2011
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As the didgeridoo music began to play and the teacher read a short Rumi poem, I settled into the bolster underneath me, which had a block underneath it at the end of one side. This held me in almost a 135 degree angle, and the blanket which covered my toes and feet and hips and shoulders empowered the coziness to fall into myself. Deeply sinking into the recesses of my brain, enjoying clicking the off-switch on the chatter, my heart rate suddenly rose as my subconscious reached backed more than a few years. All I could feel was intense rage.

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Love Addict: Do You Want To Be Here?

by Mhaya January 4, 2011
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I can’t see someone else’s face because it’s dark, but I feel the swirl of breath and wine and thickness of the air as someone else lay on top of me, his lips inches from mine, body entangled in my arms and legs. I start to answer and someone else cuts me off, “You don’t need to answer that right now.”

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