Page Turner's Blog, page 116

Love Amnesia: “Whatever You Do, Don’t Date Them Again”

“Good news,” I say. “I think we’re in a good place again.”

I tell them I just spoke with my ex-boyfriend. As with many breakups, things got a little weird for a while. But I’m feeling for the first time like we’re on the path to being on good terms again. If not now,  » Read more

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Polyamory Isn’t Selfish — And Here’s Why

“You know, Page,” she says. “Polyamory sounds so great in theory. It’s just…I can’t get past one thing: Even considering polyamory makes me feel so selfish.”

She brings up her own partner and says she imagines they might be uncomfortable with her having other lovers. She hasn’t asked them or anything, she says.  » Read more

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Ask Page: How Did You Find Such a Good Dominant?

Hi Page,

I’ve been reading your blog for about a year now. It’s my favorite one. Thank you for writing every day, for being there. I’ve read that you struggle with confidence, but you don’t need to. Never stop writing! 

I discovered you through my friends on the kink scene (who call you “Page the sage”  » Read more

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Could Procrastination Sometimes Be a Form of Masochism?

It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth.

You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person.  » Read more

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My Girlfriend & Metamour Got Married Yesterday. It Was Beautiful.

Today’s gonna rawk cuz I’m a bridesmaid in my girlfriend’s wedding. That might be the most polyamorous sentence I’ve ever written. Which is saying something, given what I do for a living, I wrote yesterday morning, before setting out to get my hair and makeup done.

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I’m hungover as I type this.  » Read more

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Halo Effect, Or That Good-Looking Person Must Have All the Answers

I walk up to the pharmacy counter, having just stowed my shopping cart in a place where I hope it’ll be sufficiently out of the way so that no one will bump into it (but still within eyesight, lest anyone be tempted to make off with it instead of getting a cart from the proper place).  » Read more

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Why Someone Speeds Up When You’re Trying to Pass Them on the Highway

“Oh of course you’re gonna slow down now,” Justin says, shaking his head. He swears colorfully. So colorfully. It’s a veritable rainbow of profanity.

The driver in question has just committed a pet peeve of his — and of many other people. It’s a very familiar frustrating situation: Another driver is going rather slow on the highway.  » Read more

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I Think Most People Are Cuter In Real Life Than They Are In Their Own Heads

I’ve been playing The Sims 4 quite a bit lately. Justin got it as an anniversary present for me since I’d wanted it for a while, pretty much ever since it came out in 2013.

One of its many new mechanics in this fourth installment is that your Sims can gain and lose weight.  » Read more

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Princesses Are Good, Queens Are Evil

I know most people don’t talk about memes very much. Most people consider them trivial, barely worthy of fleeting attention. But I personally enjoy and share them a lot and have found some memes to offer unexpectedly deep looks into subjects, mirrors that reflect what we share in common with others, or don’t. While most memes are pretty silly,  » Read more

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When It Comes to Love, It’s All About That Base

I spent many years working as a professional musician. Like a lot of folks, I played several instruments. Piano was mostly a private endeavor, primarily for composing and arranging, but ever so occasionally I’d do a solo engagement. Or play at church.

I also played the trumpet in pep band. But that was mostly because hanging out at games was so boring and the music so basic that I would have gone mad otherwise.  » Read more

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