HI FRIENDS!
I took a long hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, for a handful of reasons.
The first was that I was getting a lot of questions about how to navigate issues around things like quarantining and forming “pods” within a polyamorous context, and I was genuinely unsure how to answer them! I might position myself as an expert in ENM, but I was definitely not qualified to answer questions, especially in the early days of the pandemic, about pandemic safety and epidemiology. I was also dealing with those thorny issues in my own life and struggling to navigate them and felt overwhelmed and unable to engage with them.
The second was that I was coping with a lot of loss in my personal life, much of it directly related to the pandemic. So, so, so many of us have gone through incredible pain and grief and suffering over the past year, and I’m no exception. I needed to focus on my own healing, which meant I needed to sort of shut down and stop expending energy on things that weren’t my own survival.
But I feel a lot better and would very much like to resume this blog! I have a huge backlog of questions to get through, but will welcome new questions as well. Thank you to everyone who’s still following me & everyone who has reached out to check in on me and express ongoing interest in this blog.
<3
Zinnia