Pavlina divorce

Remember when I wrote about one of my favorite bloggers deciding to enter into a polyamory relationship with his wife? I was pretty shocked. Well, last week they announced they are divorcing. Which is odd because a couple days before the announcement I had a dream I went to one of his Conscious Growth Workshops and he kept hitting on me and all the other women in attendance and I felt HORRIBLE for his wife. And then a couple days later it comes out they are divorcing. Could I have psychically tapped into his consciousness? At any rate, the one thing I can say about Pavlina is: he is always interesting. Polyamory, juice diets, graphic descriptions of his bowel movements… I just keep reading.

One of my other favorite bloggers has gone through something similar. The Sartorialist suddenly has a French girlfriend! I totally missed the post where he mentioned what happened to his wife and children. ‘Cause he had them and then suddenly they are GONE and girlfriend Garance is here! I get an icky feeling each time I read his posts in which he gushes about Garance because I can’t help but feel bad for his wife and kids. Maybe it’s not so bad. I really don’t know the situation.

That’s the problem with these crazy digital relationships…. you think you know people because you read them every day. But it turns out you know jack sh*t. Who can blame them for leaving out the most important parts of their life? It’s not our business. And we are left guessing.

Change happens. Lord knows I’ve gone through different boyfriends on this blog, old friends disappear, new friends appear… things change and you just keep writing.

5 thoughts on “Pavlina divorce

  1. B. Davis

    Stray thoughts about this Pavlina person…

    I casually perused his website and have the impression that he leans secular humanist. A person has to “graduate from Christianity”? But I do like his
    Ten Reasons To Never Have A Job.

    Does Pavlina operate sweat lodges in Arizona?

    Have you ever seen the movie “Semi-Tough”? The self-improvement racket has been around for decades…this
    Burt Reynolds movie is worth renting just for the EST parody by Bert Convy (and as a bonus, I appear in a crowd scene with about 20,000 “extras”).

  2. Kozaburo

    That’s the weird thing about personal blogs. They’re more “real” than a soap opera because the “actors” are real people. And if they have comments, the “dialogue” serves as a proxy relationship. Which is why it’s probably best not to comment… 🙂

  3. Donna Post author

    I like the comments although if anything it cements what a horrible writer I am because more often than not I read the comment and I think, OK, I clearly didn’t get the point across that I was attempting. 🙂

  4. Donna Post author

    Pavlina swings between good ideas and real doozies. He is (one of ) the reason(s) why I am embarking upon my own business. (Ten Reasons to never have a job is a good one). Never saw Semi-Tough… although I always heard good things about EST. I’ll have to see if I can get a copy of it to watch.

  5. B. Davis

    By the way, polyamory is an incorrect term, it turns out.

    The term should be either multiamory or polyphilia.

    Mixing latin and greek roots is wrong, so they say.

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