(you know, being friends with emortimer is like having your very own Way Back Machine [my other illegal and unlicensed teleportation device only goes forward, not backward]. someday, when i finally have the time to finish indexing all the years of my LJ *before* tagging was introduced, she may prove redundant, at least for the bigger/important/thinky posts ( Read more... )

this one is for angeliquewisdom and chasewisdom, since it was going to be too long to serve as a comment in their recent posts.

tough lessons learned over many years in relationship counselling are ( behind the Cut Tag. )