Navigatingrelationships

Welcome to Chicago,now run. Voices in my head telling me to run because it ain’t your time to die tonight. I'm sweating and out of breath. Don’t know which way to go just know I have to keep moving like the wind. Standing in unfamiliar places and staring at the darkness that’s before me.  I forge ahead not knowing if I will emerge from the other side. Feeling my way I can’t see my hand in front of my face. My heart is racing, my breath is short and quick. Is this fear or has d eath found me here in the hour of midnight? Voices in my head say it’s not death but adrenaline pumping through your veins. Run. I keep moving until I see the light and I burst through like a crack of sunlight through a bedroom curtain. I am the dawn. I am the light. I stand here with life coursing through my body shaken but not defeated. Rejuvenated from my experience, thankful to be alive and thankful for the voices in my head that led me through the night and back home to you. Wri

When we think of domestic violence with usually assume the victim is female. According to the  CDC , one in seven adult men in the U.S. will become a victim of domestic violence by an intimate partner during his lifetime. That’s upwards of three million or more male domestic violence victims every year, or one man in America abused by an intimate or domestic partner every 37.8 seconds. Why does domestic violence  against men go unreported? Some men are ashamed to admit that they are victims and in other cases some feel victimized again when their is a lack of police response. From the huffington Post:  According to one recent study, 83 percent of victims who had an attorney help them file a restraining order successfully obtained one, compared to approximately 30 percent of victims who went it alone. Men are considered weak A man is not supposed to be a controlled physically by a woman. This stigma often prevents them from not only leaving an abu

Sweet life long long time ago. You and I taking on the world, I was you boy and you were my girl. We were gonna do it all. We had such big plans graduated from college joined in matrimony walking off hand in hand. Sweet life. Such a sweet life long ,long time ago. La-la-la We were so in love don’t cha know. Nothing could stop us. We were invincible. Oh but how were we to know our road was paved with potholes. We hit a few along the way ,mended our wounds and moved on to another day. Sunshine blue skies gave way to darken days. It seems the stars were misaligned and we began to go separate ways. Distance can prove fatal to any relationship. We grew miles apart though we were together everyday. Sweet life, we had a sweet life long, long time ago. I wish we could go back and take this pain away. Don’t you want to go? Go back to yesterday when all we needed was each other and love guided our way. Let’s go back baby and find what we once had. I know we

What does it take to be a good husband? Listen to the Art Chat Daddy Radio show where I will be a guest. Tune in on IHeart Radio WVON 1690 and on the AM dial WVON 1690 in Chicago. 8:30pm CST http://wvon.com/personalities/real-talk-real-people-with-art-chatdaddy-sims/

“What are we doing, are we just going through the motions of a dying love affair? We are two people riding the same train but with different destinations”. Looking back it might not be so hard to understand how you ended up here. It is what it is It is what it is. At least that’s what I’ve heard people say. But is it really though? It’s funny in a sense. Life takes some amazing and some not so amazing twist and turns.    It throws you for loops, riding the adventures of the highs and the lows. Do you sometimes get the feeling that there always seem to be more lows than highs. To use a couple of analogies- it might feel like you are always just trying to keep your head above water.  And what happens if neither of you know how to swim? Eventually you both drown in an emotional pool of despair. Second, it’s like riding one of those mechanical bulls, it starts out nice and easy and you start to feel like yeah I got this. Then it speeds up jerks and pulls you