The personal site and blog of Lynda Martens
From the category archives:
Know Thyself and What Thy Wants in a Relationship: Sure, we’re all growing and changing, but until you know something of yourself and what your needs are from a partner (and this is perhaps best deciphered through the natural period in youth of testing and tasting the wares available), you may struggle to find a good [...]
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We are taught to be nice when we are children. Women, in particular, are trained to acquiesce to the needs of others, not rock the boat, say nothing rather than be nasty…blah blah blah. We learn to swallow our voices and then we spend the rest of our lives trying to make sense of the [...]
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I learned the other day about a common practice when meeting someone in person for the first time with whom you have been chatting on a dating site. Apparently, after arranging to meet outside a public place…say, a coffee shop…person A arrives early and sits in their car waiting for person B to get out [...]
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I often ask people who seem a bit depleted “What fills you up?” “When you want to feel good about yourself, where do you go, what do you do… who do you see?”
I remember a time in my life when I was feeling extremely useless and incompetent. I was about to go on stage in a [...]
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