Rupi Kaur’s Relationship Prompts

 

Creating a healthy relationship with yourself and others leads to a fulfilling life. These prompts are an invitation to step inside yourself. Take a deep breath. Shuffle the deck. Pull a card. Write your heart out. Rupi Kaur

Relationships can be difficult

Like living in a cult

Missing family and friends

no visiting or knowing and lends

itself to no fault

of anyone involved til it ends.

Rupi Kaur’s Relationship Writing Prompts — If you could go back in time and meet your father a year before you were born, what would you say to him?

Hey dad, are you ready for me?

Thirty years without and now a baby

Mom is the bomb, you lucked out see

I choose you two, Love you Daddy!

Rupi Kaur’s Relationship Writing Prompts — What is your opinion on polyamorous relationships?

I was born in the 1950s and grew up in a free-love community in the 1960s and 1970s. When I was married, we were offered some of that. No thank you was our response. We had close friends who bought in, and until they all got VD, they participated. No judgment, as it was pretty common.

I have heard it continues to be a thing. At 70, I am not aware of friends who do that anymore. There have been people who live that way in their religious beliefs, and those who have been on television.

Rupi Kaur’s Relationship Writing Prompts — Your best friend doesn’t like your partner. How do you react and handle this situation?

One best friend liked my husband too much and had him ask me if they could date after we were divorced. We had gotten back together after a year of being divorced and it wasn’t working. That threw me and it wasn’t only him that I now had to grieve but her too.

I went to treatment, lived in a hospital for a month, and walked across to a treatment center for addiction; alcohol, drugs, and eating disorder. While there a woman who looked just like my best friend walked up to me and asked me why I didn’t like her.

She then said, “Is it because I am lesbian?” I have never had any issues with L,G,B,T,Q+ in my life. I realized as she said that though that I had been avoiding her as she looked so much like my friend and looking at her reminded me of my friend. I told her that.

She then said, “How about when you see them that you think of me and your husband being in a relationship?” I laughed and then we laughed. It made no sense but it was funny to think of him in that way. I spent time there grieving the loss of my friend of 20+ years and my husband of 15 years.

I can not remember any friends not liking my husband. They liked them, not as much as they liked me but still, they trusted me and then trusted my husband.

I am not sure what would happen in the situation in the question above. My husband has been my best friend. If a friend doesn’t like him that is okay as long as the 3 of us don’t spend time together.

I do have relationships with friends that don’t always include my husband. Single friends with deceased husbands or divorced and not remarried.

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First published by Mercury Press on medium.com

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