Being disabled does NOT make me a burden to my partner. Being disabled does NOT make me a burden to anyone. It doesn’t make any disabled or chronically ill person a burden at all. Ever. A few weeks ago BBC Ouch shared a podcast interview with some people with disabled partners. The discussion between the…
Category: relationships
Love Island and Why I’m Glad I Don’t Have To Date in Modern Society
Similar to last year, I’m very much hooked on Love Island. I’m a total reality TV junkie; it’s not even a guilty pleasure of mine, it’s purely pleasure and I fucking love it. Tell me it’s staged, tell me it’s shit, I don’t really care, I still watch it and I’ll no doubt forever be…
My First Love, The Ableist
Content Warning: Sex, ableism I’ve been pondering about writing this post for a while and although I’ve wanted to get it out there, I was also really wary about reliving this period of my life as it wasn’t the best. At the time, I thought it was perfect, I believed it was how relationships went…
Buh Bye Negativity: Cutting out Toxic People
How many times do you give a person, ‘one more chance’? Why do you keep forgiving them when they let you down? Why are they part of your life if all they do is cause hassle, stress, emotional turmoil? After almost 30 years, I’ve finally learned that it’s okay to cut off toxic people. It’s…
My Relationship isn’t 50/50
This doesn’t bother me in a way that I’m fixated upon it, but it is something in the back of my mind; especially with regards to how outsiders view things. My relationship with my boyfriend, Ian, isn’t 50/50, it’s not equal. What I mean is, he does absolutely everything. It seems like his whole being is consumed…