Challenging Monogamy: Rewriting the Fairytale Ending

"A heart is not a box you fill up, it expands the more you love." We are taught that monogamy is the gold standard and anything that strays from that is problematic or inherently wrong. Thus, people who are not monogamous, nor want to be, are judged and often seen as having something off about…

Teach Me.

Such pretty things You said to me-- Unbutton me some more. For I am yours to take tonight upon this forest floor. Let's make a bed in Autumn leaves, and leave no leaf unturned. Beneath these trees please teach me, please-- To learn a love unearned.

Loving a Woman with a Guarded Heart.

“I don’t think you get it. Her guard is up, but that’s what naturally happens when you’ve loved with a heart so free and ended up in shackles behind the bars of betrayal. I don’t think you understand that she’s just trying to protect her heart from further damage. The women, who seem the hardest…