This post covers abusive relationships, co-dependency and CPTSD. Please do not read if you feel this might not be helpful post, it does revisit those places
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Under the same moon – a #F4tFriday post
We spend most of our lives apart. We live our days out going to work or sorting chores or household tasks at the weekend. We see separate friends separately. We cook and eat at a hundred and ten miles distance. I don’t help him to reach a difficult place to soap His back in the shower. He doesn’t hold a coat open for me to put on a coat with ease. Our kisses are infrequent, our hugs can be counted on the fingers of no hands most weeks, we rarely sleep with limbs entwined and yet I count this as my most intimate relationship ever. This wasn’t planned. Our love…
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Come as you are
This image has no editing apart from flipping it so you can read the words on my body. Ironically written, with the last of the felt tips pens my youngest had when he and I shared drawing and colouring as a hobby, they put into picture the words I hear when I look at my body in the morning light. Four kids, periods of over eating, no exercise, and the menopause have all had their effect on my body. Sorrow and stress have too. I am sixty, soon to be sixty one and questioning my judgement regarding posting naked images for much longer. We don’t like older people much. We…