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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
— Couples need to develop empathy, to feel the other, as much as possible. Anger, fear, shame, insecurity can be felt as negative empathy, emotional infections.
— Expressing remorse with a sincere apology after hurting one’s partner can often strengthen a relationship, not only repair it. It can make a person feel “felt” and understood.
— A couple can (re)connect through “relaxed excitement”—lying together and simply holding one another, breathing together, gazing into each other’s eyes, giving kissing lessons, and through play.
Stella Resnick, Ph.D. The Heart of Desire: Keys to the Pleasures of Love (via sexreeducated)
In Kansas, your local neighborhood drug store pharmacist can now refuse to fill your doctor-issued contraception prescription, or any drug he or she thinks might be used to terminate a pregnancy, or be used in conjunction with pregnancy termination, all on the grounds of “religious liberty” and “conscience protection.” Not only that, but anyone who ”reasonably believes” a drug prescription they are filling or “reasonably believes” an action they are taking — say, administering a drug — might result in the termination of a pregnancy is allowed to refuse under Republican Governor Sam Brownback‘s new law.
The so-called “Health Care Rights of Conscience Act,” which curiously exists in several states under the same name (perhaps an ALEC creation?), applies to pharmacists and even nurses and doctors — anyone who is related to the process of pregnancy termination. The drugs could include both abortion-inducing medications, and even emergency contraception like the so-called “morning-after pill,” but also could include drugs used for life-saving reasons — the pharmacist would only have to trust their gut, not the doctor’s orders.
— Those who swing (are nonmonogamous within a structured setting) in her large sample of subjects do so on average every 3 to 4 months. They are highly educated, professional, married 10+ years, median income double that of U.S. median. More than one quarter are politically conservative.
— 84% sampled stated that swinging improved their relationships. They reported better communications, were happier with life, marriage and themselves and have more sex together than monogamous couples
A Look at Couples who are Swingers and Gottman Typing to Predict Marital Success by Joye Swan„ Ph.D (via sexreeducated)
yes please?
ACTION:
1. have you ever gotten into a physical fight?
2. have you ever tried to escape from home?
3. have you ever saved anyone's life?
4. have you ever been in a car accident?
5. have you ever broken a bone?
ROMANCE:
6. do you hope to get married?
7. do you plan on having kids?
8. do you like anyone right now?
9. have you ever cried over someone you liked before?
10. hugs or kisses?
HORROR:
11. do you believe in ghosts/spirits?
12. have you ever had a "paranormal" experience?
13. what's your biggest fear?
14. are you scared of the dark?
15. how often do you have nightmares?
COMEDY:
16. have you ever laughed so hard your chest started to hurt?
17. when was the last time you laughed to the point of tears, and what happened to cause it?
18. is it easy to make you laugh?
19. what's something you find funny that most people don't think is funny?
20. have you ever told a joke no one laughed at?
You know when little kids get tired/grumpy/angry/sad and they throw a fit? That’s a temper tantrum. Why are you asking me?
[trigger warning: discussion of rape and violence]
Artemisia Gentileschi is an amazing historical figure. A survivor who endured torture and humiliation when she tried to convict the man who raped her, she is famous for her beautifully rendered paintings of defiant women enacting violence upon men. Above are Judith Slaying Holofernes, Judith and Maidservant, and Jael and Sisera. It is rumored that Judith Beheading Holofernes is a self-portrait, in which Judith was painted in Gentileschi’s likeness and Holofernes was modeled after her rapist.One of my favorite painters. Her story is just…ugh. Moving and distressing.
artemisia is the bomb
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We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.
(On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)
Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com
- He raises a really great point. What would it mean to believe very early that my body was mine. That it’s not for anyone or for any particular purpose other than to be mine until I decide otherwise.
(via larepublicadedet)
I was damned near 30 before I could believe my body belonged to me & me alone. Dear people who take an issue with this,
Let the Smiths do right by their babies & shut the fuck up about how you think they should parent.
(via karnythia)
A friend of mine asked me recently, was I gonna go see the new Batman movie with him. But I don’t respect the concept of Batman because of what I understand about politics now. I’mma lay it out for you: rich dude owns a corporation with state of the art equipment, and he uses this to beat up on street level crime. He doesn’t mess with the industrialists, or the super capitalists, or the Murdochs, or the Trumps. He really just fucks with the person that’s on the corner. Batman is a conservative’s wet dream. Fuck Batman.
Reginald D. Hunter (via crashbangtrollop)
(Source: the-man-from-hell-monte)
