How does death, loss and grief impact our relationships? After a year filled with loss, Sarah and Alex talk to a trauma-informed spiritual care provider about the taboos around death, and what happens to our desire when people around us die.  Mentioned in the episode: <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/100184/9780679732273">Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz</a> | <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/100184/9780395957653">Without: Poems by Donald Hall</a> | <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/100184/9780393357622">Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman</a> mistakescast@gmail.com | <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/mistakescast/">https://www.instagram.com/mistakescast/</a> Logo design by roy franklin: <a href= "http://www.whateverfactory.org/">www.whateverfactory.org</a> Links to bookshop.org are affiliate links. Any proceeds will support this podcast!

Ep 54: Are Het Relationships Hopeless?

Non monogamy for imperfect people. Hosted by a queer therapist and her husband of 15 years. Sarah & Alex share their experiences opening their marriage, and interview guests about the struggles & rewards of doing relationships your own way. Mistakes Were Made is part advice, part confession, part culture critique. But it's all about learning from our missteps and stumbling toward liberation. Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mistakescast/. Logo design by roy franklin of the Whatever Factory - https://www.whateverfactory.org/.