How to Have a Ideal Socially Distant Relationship Part 4

If you haven’t read Parts 1-3, you’ll want all the buildup and juicy details before diving in to Part 4. Start here with Part 1. Bearing in mind that this anticipated time together in person with my Imaginary Lover (I.L.) is purely imaginary, read on… We find a place to be alone, as I know … Read more

How to Have an Ideal Socially Distant Relationship – Part 3

If you haven’t read Parts 1 and 2, you’ll want all the juicy details before diving in to Part 3. Start here with Part 1 and here’s the link for Part 2. I find this “ideal” man compelling, arousing, sexually stimulating, and fulfilling during my private time with myself, and I respectfully asked him for … Read more

How to Have an Ideal Socially Distant Relationship – Part 2

  If you haven’t read Part 1, you’ll want the background before diving in to Part 2. Read it here. More than four months have now passed since I began my “ideal” socially distant relationship with a man who reached out to me in January. I have been living in an altered state of consciousness … Read more

How to Have an Ideal Socially Distant Relationship-Part 1

Ideal Lover | Caroline Muir

Whether you have a love relationship with another or just with yourself, I imagine it falls somewhere between “ideal” and “reality.” But what if there’s another option? What I am proposing is a socially distant ideal relationship… like the one that I am now experiencing during this global life change in what feels like my … Read more

Is a Kiss just a Kiss?

I had the honor of spending 90 minutes recently being interviewed by Katherine Woodward Thomas, author of Conscious Uncoupling, for one of her private classes. It sparked powerful memories and fifty-odd years of relationship, love, separation. and divorce. While many are doing the sacred work of “uncoupling,” I have lived that sacred work with Charles … Read more

Is your marriage sex-starved?

Rarely have I ever seen this particular topic covered with such elegance as in the Tedx talk delivered by Michele Weiner-Davis, author of The Sex-Starved Marriage-Boosting Your Marriage Libido. She does a great job of revealing the pitfalls of a relationship where one partner desperately wants sex and the other is apathetic or unwilling.   … Read more

Remembering Love as a Force of Nature

by Caroline Muir “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” Priest and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was on to something. If his words seem … Read more