by Valerie Sussman | Apr 10, 2019 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Ladies … Start Your Engines…We’re on a ROAR!, Random Acts of Baggage
By the time my husband moved out for the fourth (and final) time I was already running on empty. I had completely lost myself in the course of an emotionally abusive marriage while raising three sons, working as a doctor, and, oh yeah—striving for perfection. I had...
by Valerie Sussman | Nov 13, 2018 | Narcissists: (Only Bad and Ugly Here)
“Narcissistic abuse” is the term used to describe the emotional abuse aimed at the unsuspecting partner of the narcissist. If you are in a relationship with a narcissist, you are guaranteed to get pricked along the way. Here are just a few of the many “gifts” the...
by Valerie Sussman | Nov 5, 2018 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Ladies … Start Your Engines…We’re on a ROAR!, Random Acts of Baggage
“Do it all, Have it all,” Said society’s liars. We women, we bought it (Such gullible buyers.) We climbed up the ladder, Wiped out (fucking tired) To the rope licked by flames, Bravely walking the wire. We fought for our balance (“Stay out of the fire!”) Burned our...
by Valerie Sussman | Nov 2, 2018 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Ladies … Start Your Engines…We’re on a ROAR!, Random Acts of Baggage
This is my story. It is a story about stories I tell myself. It’s a piece of… Story. PART ONE: “A rose is a rose is a rose…” But… What if that rose is buried under shitloads of shit? Is it still a rose? Is it a stinking rose? Is it buried treasure? Or… Is it just…...
by Valerie Sussman | Oct 31, 2018 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Random Acts of Baggage
Moral of the story: If you over-give, you WILL be over-taken. And taken over. (With apologies— and thanks— to my hero, Shel Silverstein)