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A compassionate theory of ghosting: How to preserve your faith in love, men, and yourself when a good man ghosts you (or when any man does)
The background story I was recently ghosted by a man of whom I'd been saying, for months, that that's the most grown-up man I have ever...
Mila Petrova
Mar 2926 min read


33 strong hypotheses from the time I tried – and succeeded – to change sector, almost double my income and move by the seaside
When amidst the COVID-19 pandemic I was being made redundant from a job I loved at a university which will forever remain ‘my university’...
Mila Petrova
Mar 2440 min read


10 Catch 22s that make the clutch of depression so difficult to escape, and how to begin to (Part 1 of 2)
This is a vision of depression as a condition of Catch 22s: problematic situations you cannot resolve or escape from because they require...
Mila Petrova
Mar 1530 min read


On Trust in True Love
This blog is a section of a chapter of a book on true love I drafted last year. I know, hasn't everything on love been said?! I believe...
Mila Petrova
Mar 613 min read
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