Depending on when you read this it’s probably either the last day of 2007 or one of the first few days of 2008. In any case: Happy New Year!
Even though the 31st of December and the 1st of January are technically and scientifically pretty much similar to, say, the 27th and the 28th of July, […]

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As a child you have this wonderful feeling that everything you and your family do is perfectly normal. Traditions, rituals, relationships, communication, hierarchy; because it is the only thing you know, you tend to think that every family does the same things in the same way. And families who do otherwise are, well, they are […]

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I’ve always had the dubious pleasure to miss out on the labels. Psychologists, doctors, experts by experience and just plain nosy people have always been happy to confirm I had some bits of crazy inside of me. A bit of borderline, they said, but not quite completely. A bit of bipolar disorder, they concluded, but […]

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When one aspires to write articles for women’s magazines, one has to sometimes buy and read those women’s magazines. I think that is quite a logical assumption. So lately I’ve been strolling through the magazine section of any store I was in, looking for a good chick-lit-like, glossy magazine to buy.

Amazingly every cover has been screaming about the same theme for a long long time:
“Monogamy, an overrated illusion”
“The drunken mistake: why you should never tell him”
“Me and my boyfriend: non-exclusive but happy”
“The secret fling before you walk the aisle”
Every issue of every magazine I saw offered at least one or two articles about infidelity, unfaithfulness, not being monogamous, cheating. And weirdly enough not about how to take revenge on your misbehaving partner, but how to simply deal with it, even that we should just accept it. I was intrigued at first, but then I got pretty furious.

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