“Yeah, at surface level what’s happened between you guys seems weird or even impossible, but if you think of it, it’s actually quite a universal experience: friends fall for each other, because they like each other as persons”. Ron’s words yesterday evening brought me some respite, some lightness, almost a sense of things being “smoothedContinue reading ““Friends fall for each other””
Tag Archives: relationships
Crossing lines of tenderness
As hard as waiting often is, it also, usually, helps to bring clarity. Yesterday was particularly hard for me. Fortunately, though, my buddy Ron was available to talk with me for an hour while I was hiking on one of my favorite trails around sunset. Ron has an almost unrivaled capacity to balance deep emotionalContinue reading “Crossing lines of tenderness”
Friday night blues
Here it is, my Friday night blues. The melancholy, sometimes acute sadness, intense loneliness, that has been hitting me, like clockwork, almost every Friday evening for the past two or three months. Last weekend it didn’t happen but that was only because I went on a camping & climbing trip with a group of friends,Continue reading “Friday night blues”
Being desired in my entirety of masculine & feminine
Jack & I met almost four years ago, through a group chat for local climbers. At first, I thought we would never really mesh as climbing partners and it was only thanks to my Italian climbing buddy that I gave the friendship between me & Jack a second chance and it wasn’t until almost aContinue reading “Being desired in my entirety of masculine & feminine”
In between genders
A few months ago, in October 2025, I joined an adult recreational team at my climbing gym. At the time, apart from me, there were five women and six men on the team, all cis. Three of the women on the team are in romantic/sexual/nesting relationships with three of the men; however, two of thoseContinue reading “In between genders”
Double impossibility
I just got home from my run — a good, satisfying workout, and yet what I feel is that I want to cry. I feel a deep, intense sadness. I feel sad. I’ve been ruminating for days, maybe weeks, on & off, trying to figure out the causes for why people don’t like me physically/sexuallyContinue reading “Double impossibility”
A moral question
“Where were you when your father needed you?” is something my mother has asked me full of venom almost every time we have talked since my father’s death two & a half years ago — which is one of the reasons why the times we talk are so few and far between. Where was myContinue reading “A moral question”
The eternal extra work for AFAB persons
Yesterday, I found myself venting with one of my closest cis-guy friends about my confusion and disappointment: the gay climber (another cis-man) with whom I had seemed to connect so nicely over the holidays and who seemed to genuinely enjoy my company & to care about my friendship has ghosted me. He didn’t reply toContinue reading “The eternal extra work for AFAB persons”
“It is what it is”
[Trigger warnings: death, loss, grief.] “ […] We’re lost and no-one wants to feel like that We’ll find a way we can work this out But it is what it is right now I don’t have the words to make this right Or a way to fix it all tonight I know right now, itContinue reading ““It is what it is””
Insecurity & Scarcity Mindset
Last night I went on a beautiful 8-mile hike in the full moon with a potential new friend. But all I can feel this morning is sadness and fear. I cannot see the physical achievement of hiking the 8 miles after weeks where an abdominal strain has been making it hard & painful for meContinue reading “Insecurity & Scarcity Mindset”
The Little Prince and the Fox 