FEMALE FEATURE Emma Highwood is a health and wellbeing consultant from Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs About two years ago, I was a girl looking for love in all the wrong places: lost, sad and heartbroken. I’d relinquished my self-esteem. I felt rejected and undervalued. My subsequent behaviour was the manifestation of both my pain and loss … More How I Found Healthy Love
When someone you love tells you they’re, “No longer in love with you,” it doesn’t immediately register. It must be a mistake, surely. That someone who you love can choose to up and move on. Move on? You feel like your investment of trust, time, money and all-round energy has been a waste. Of course, … More Heartbreak and Happy Pills
I’m a dog. In fact, I think most guys are just dogs. I don’t mean a dog in the sense that women would like to describe us – akin to a dirty dog, but a simple, instinctual, pack-following, even obedient dog – more of the canine variety. I came to view myself as a dog … More Old Dog, New Tricks
If only I’d known she had Asperger’s. If only I’d understood her behaviour. If only I’d let her be herself. If only she’d been honest and brave. If only she knew how. If only. When Monique took a leap of faith and communicated her love for me, I fell for her words of affirmation. What … More An Aspergirl Indeed
Sir Issac Newton was onto something deeper than physics when he came up with his Third Law, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” I lacked self-confidence. I moved around a lot as a kid. I found it hard to make friends. I was lonely, an outcast. I hated myself. I was … More Men and Confidence: One Woman’s Story
FEMALE FEATURE Hayley Ford writes exclusively for Snafued Try, try, and try again until you succeed. We’ve all heard the saying but when it comes to never-ending relationships is it that we give up trying, don’t try hard enough, or try too hard? A shy girl at heart and heavily into competitive sport, I didn’t care … More The Never-ending Relationship
FEATURE – BOOK REVIEW Editor’s Pick What a fool believes, he sees. Jesse Fink, author of LAID BARE: One Man’s Story of Sex, Love and Other Disorders was a fool. A fool for love for really quite a long time. In truth, he probably always will be. And after much soul searching – through the … More LAID BARE: Review
Blokes are often accused of not putting enough into a relationship. I put everything, including the kitchen sink, into mine. I cared for this girl, fell head over heals in love, and went above and beyond in the quest to make her smile every day. I put in too much. The heartache of being dumped, … More Sister Act
Things were going really well with Ginger. I had met her parents and visited the family home, staying in her bed, while she slept downstairs (they were a good Catholic family). I had been her date at a physiotherapy ball. I had worn a borrowed tuxedo; she had worn a long silk skirt and a … More Ginger Chronicles: Part 2 – Pink Notepaper
