Hey friends. I know a lot of you would like to know about what’s going on with me and upcoming projects and stuff. So I’ll say here at the top that I’m working on a number of things at the moment. New stuff is coming and I’ll be making some posts soon to give you all a little taste of what I’m cooking up.
But tonight, I wanna talk about something else. Something that’s been on my mind a lot the last few weeks. My friend and occasional collaborator Tabico.
As many of you already know, she took a leave of absence from the erotic mind control scene a little over four years ago after revealing that she was getting divorced and needed to step away. She wasn’t sure if she’d return and so far she hasn’t.
And, ever since then I’ve missed her.
But for the past several years, I’ve been OK with that. And even though we weren’t in communication, I kind of felt like my being OK with it was what I could do to support her decision as a friend.
I don’t know why, but that changed in the last few days. I’ve really been wanting to talk to her lately and I can’t and for the first time since she stepped away… I’m angry about it. Not angry at her, mind you, just angry.
I began to have these feelings that it wasn’t fair that I can’t talk to her. I want to catch up and see how she’s doing. I wanna tell her how I’m doing. I wanna share some of the things I’ve had going on in my life, with her. I want to ask her for advice on things that I know she would have insight on. I wanna talk movies with her like we used to.
Amid these feelings of anger, I also caught myself having thoughts like maybe I should’ve done something different in the past. And if I had done that different thing, maybe we’d still be in communication now.
And that’s when something occurred to me. I am angry and I’m bargaining: two of the early stages of grief.
I think I’m grieving her. For some reason in the past couple of weeks, I think my brain has come to the conclusion that she is not coming back. And that I’ve spoken to her for the last time. And I’m grieving a lost friend.
And it really sucks.
It sucks because, to the best of my knowledge, she’s still out there somewhere. But just in a different frame of mind. Enough so, that she’s decided that coming back to the mind control community and friends therein, like me, is not something that she’s willing or able to do.
And because I’m her friend I’m OK with that. At least, I’m trying to be. I know how intelligent and wise she is and I respect the decision she’s made. I want her to do what’s best for her. I want her to be happy. Because I’m her friend.
But I’m really missing her tonight. And so I guess that’s why I’m here, shouting into the void.
Thanks for listening.
6 Comments
David
All the hugs.
It is good for you to feel what are a feeling, and to process.
I hope that you will reconnect sometime, but you are strong and wise.
I wish you both the very best.
Bob
Ditto. All of this. And I didn’t know her like you did.
She is missed.
Apropos
Hey
Re-reading Neighborly the other day led me to re-read Lord May which led me to shoot a fan message off to the email address listed there.
It’s a long shot, I know, but I sent it in the hope that Tabico might read it and understand that there are still people out here who care for her and love her work, and that regardless of whether or not she comes back I’d like her to know that her work made a huge difference.
I’ve only ever sent two fan emails in my life. They were both to her. This was the second.
Thanks for sharing your grief; although you were friends and I only knew her through her work I wanted to let you know you’re not alone in it.
EyeofSerpent
And I’m grieving a lost friend.
And it really sucks.
I feel this.
It has been on my mind that a once amazing circle of friends, authors who would write me about what they were working on, ask about what I was working on, and give me amazing encouragement, is no longer on social media.
The media got harsh. The government got harsh. And I got thinned out by the RL things happening to nice people. I drifted away.
In the meantime, while I miss them, I am writing again.
And your feelings matter to me.
Bob
You’ve kept going and have put our some very interesting things this week. Enjoying the demon negotiations you embarked on. Keep it up
Vanderbilt
I know what you mean. I only wish Tabico all the very best and am thankful that through her stories i got so much and in our limited direct interactions she both said some nice things about my stories and i was also able to let her know how much her stories had meant to me.