Jealousy!

As an adult, I don't want what I haven't earned or been given. Over years I've learned that the best associations and relationships are those among freely cooperating individuals. However, there is a subset of the general population that is jealous, negative, vengeful, and seeks to steal what they did not deserve or earn. It's …

The Ugly

The good, the bad, and the ugly; that's how I've occasionally rated relationships. It is easy to lay out the territory on the bad and the ugly - people who abuse you, use you and leave scars.  An unfairly large percentage of time gets spent discussing them while you sit at the bar on a lonely night. …

The good, the bad and the ugly

Daily writing promptWhat relationships have a positive impact on you?View all responses Looking back, good things came from failed, bad, misogynistic, and plain awful relationships. You say, "What? Oh, you changed the direction of your life and escaped the negativity." That, too, but I extracted enormous gains from awful situations.From an awful boss who would …