Romantic Relationships! We humans long to be acknowledged, understood, loved, and accepted. Our hearts are hungry to connect. Despite our powerful desire to experience genuine love, we may continue to choose or be attracted to the same kind of partner who disappoints us repeatedly (read: repeatedly). To stop choosing emotionally unavailable partners (EUPs), you must understand why you… Read More »
This post is not a twirling about the meadows Post but a truth serum Post. It promises the added benefit of feeling better in the long term by getting uncomfortable in the short term by exploring how to become emotionally available. One step in learning how to become emotionally available is learning to access the emotions in our… Read More »
As I continue to strengthen my commitment to my emotional availability, it’s ever so clear that the lion’s share of courage is needed to relinquish our knee-jerk impulse to leave our experiences to chance but not a catalog of choices we make in life. Indeed, for some of us, we are the sum of our daily choices, month-to-month,… Read More »
One thing I used to find eerily haunting about my relationships with EUPs (Emotionally Unavailable Partners) is their seeming ability to drop the microphone, give up the ghost, and walk away from the relationship without a flinch- to discard things (people) as not important to them. In hindsight, every time they walked away from the relationship, unbeknownst to… Read More »
Life lessons keep appearing to test me as I attempt to refresh, renew, and restart my dreams of a significant career transition at 37 (i.e., rebooting the Love & Life Antics Blog, paving the way for a new career in SEO and digital marketing). Life keeps asking the vital question: “Jacen, how will you deal with life obstacles… Read More »
So, you’re asking, Does an Emotionally Unavailable Man Miss You? If you were involved with a EUP (Emotionally Unavailable Partner) or are still dipping in the EUP pond, it’s easy to fixate on their absence and rack your brain about this question. We can especially obsess to the high heavens over this when things don’t work out with… Read More »
After dealing with “Mr. Soul Mate Speech” (the EUP who sparked my “Relationship Aha Moment”), I realized many things about breakups. Our crazy Love Antics had us in a cycle of making up to breakup. During our relationship, we called it quits a whopping eight times. Yes, eight times! Who on God’s green earth breaks up eight times?… Read More »
Unhealthy situations and relationships- should we stay or leave? How do we know when a relationship or a job environment is unhealthy versus healthy for us? Those are the burning questions. What are the answers? We will cover that in this post. Well, I found my answers. I decided I couldn’t stay stuck in a toxic job. So,… Read More »
