Page Turner's Blog, page 39

I Can Live on a Good Compliment for Days

“I kind of want to do something ridiculous for brunch, but I know it’s too much,” I say.

“Like what?” you reply.

“Like pie,” I say.

“Or we could have charcuterie,” you offer.

We have a ton leftover of both. It’s the day after Thanksgiving — and even though it was just the two of us,  » Read more

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I’m in Love With How You Sound

My favorite sound is the sound of your voice. When you talk to me, yes, but also when your attention is turned elsewhere. Your voice is particularly beautiful when you’re telling someone a story. When I’m not expected to eventually answer, I can listen to you in a completely different way, get lost in the peaks and valleys of your prosody.  » Read more

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Just Heard of Relationship Soft Launches (& Hard Launches)… Honestly, I’m Flummoxed

As many long-time readers of the blog know, I am always on the lookout for new terms and concepts that people are coming up with in order to describe this strange new world we live in. I find them interesting — and usually the formation of a new term can be telling.

I happened across a new expression today —  » Read more

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How I Make Lockdown Feel Almost Normal

I’m writing this the Monday morning after the Thanksgiving holiday. And doing so feels incredibly weird.

Because I haven’t written anything for 4 days. Nothing in my journal. Certainly no articles for this blog. And no fiction words.

Oh, sure, I wrote a couple of social media statuses on my personal accounts,  » Read more

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Why Losing Someone Close To You Really Is Like Losing Your Mind

Many years ago, I got divorced. It was an experience that threw me completely off guard. I wasn’t at all prepared for what a divorce would be like.

Frankly, I never thought I would be someone who got divorced. (To be fair, however, I never thought anyone would want to marry me in the first place,  » Read more

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What Is the Personal Fable & How Can It Inform Your Risk-Taking Decision-Making?

In yesterday’s edition of Psyched for the Weekend, I talked about adolescent disembedding, a normal developmental stage in which teenagers create emotional distance and rebel against rules in order to establish and understand their own identity.

Today I wanted to tackle another hallmark of adolescence: The personal fable.  » Read more

What Is the Personal Fable?

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What Adolescent Disembedding Is & Why It’s So Often Confused with Family Estrangement

It’s broadly known that teenagers become rebellious. Even the sweetest children often have a phase in adolescence where they test the limits set upon them. And many kids at this point will also arbitrarily and suddenly decide at this point as well that even parents they were formerly close to are now tragically uncool.

It’s so common a phenomenon that it’s a trope.  » Read more

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What Helped Me Recover From Dependent Personality Disorder

HI Page,

Your article today about perspecticide was a total game changer. I had no idea what dependent personality disorder was and suddenly all of my struggles make sense. (I also was involved in a perspecticide relationship for 4 years in my early 20s). I’ve been in therapy for 2 years.  » Read more

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In a Trying Time, I Am Nonetheless So Freaking Grateful

This holiday season is going to be hard. Not just for me but for a lot of people.

I’m celebrating it alone with my live-in partner and our cats and birds. (And a much put-upon catgrass plant that I maintain with varying degrees of success.)

COVID-19 is spiking, so it’s by far the safest way to do things —  » Read more

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It’s Better to Calibrate Your Level of COVID Risk to Others, Not Yourself

I’ve found myself wondering a lot lately how so many people can be comfortable taking needless risks in the face of COVID-19. One study I’ve covered found a link between sociopathy and mask shunning. (Yeah, kind of a sensational premise maybe but if the shoe fits…)

But you have to be careful about painting people all with the same brush.  » Read more

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