Editor Picks — Our Favourite Relationship Posts

Editor Picks — Our Favourite Relationship Posts

This week, Safia and I are choosing our favourite posts that talk about relationships. There are quite a few, and there’s such variation in the interpretation of the word relationship, it made some of the stories really stand out.

That said, we narrowed it down to one each. Let us know what you think:

Kern

One of my absolute favourite writers on Medium is Tre L. Loadholt. Talk about inspirational; Tre writes prose and poetry with such grace and purpose and attitude that I get jealous of her talent. Seriously. She is incredible.

The piece I’m choosing this week is called You Should Take More Chances. No preamble about why I love it, you read for yourself:

There is a woman — there’s always a woman or a man, yes? Isn’t that how most stories go when we’re reminiscing or thinking about what we could have done differently or what we may have missed? There is someone or something perfectly placed within our path to mislead — misdirect us. But, there is a woman. She is new. And she could be someone on loan to me for a short while to lend what my life needs at this moment. Or, she could remain here for an entire season and a few more seasons to come, but who knows? She is here now, and I am terrified.

Safia

One of my favourite relationship posts on CRY is Mother, a complicated subject by Sylvia Wilde; a poem that beautifully illustrates the raw pain and turbulent dynamic between mother and child.

An excerpt that captured my attention:

For what
kind of
monster

can’t forgive
the person
perhaps

most beloved
in all the
world?

And what
kind of
fool

won’t
choose
escape

from
the force still
inflicting

fresh cuts
atop
wounds

that
never
scarred?

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