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Anger-management issues run rampant in my family. For some reason, I have lucked out. Whether it’s birth order, personality, or something else, I have avoided this curse. If anything, I don’t always feel appropriate anger when I should. Freud posited that depression is just anger turned inwards, so maybe that’s why I carry that cross.

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There is a code of silence in my family. A kind of don’t ask/don’t tell policy, if not outright omertà. I never understood why, but I always dutifully played along. Perhaps it was the times. As children, we were never informed why we moved overseas, that my parents got divorced, that my father got remarried,

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Needless to say, things were not all bad in my family. We had our share of laughs and good times. I fear many may think I have savaged my family with a vengeance. Not so. I have learnt much in the last few years. Much that was hidden or disguised. It needed to be uncovered.

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He was everything I wanted. It only took a second date to realize how drawn I was to him. In a way I had never felt before. It was magnetic. Pity is, the feeling wasn’t exactly mutual. It was on the third date that cracks began to appear. I picked up on something he said

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