• Dear Baby Jesus, Please Don’t Let Me Ruin This

    Dear Baby Jesus, Please Don’t Let Me Ruin This

    When you leave a tumultuous relationship and start one that is actually, what’s the word? Healthy? It can leave your brain going, uh BRO, what’s happening here?! My on-and-off-on-and-off until the end of time relationship was with a very insecure man. He spewed hateful words at me when he lost his temper, then denied ever

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  • My Touchstone Couple

    My Touchstone Couple

    When my marriage hit the crapper, I wasn’t shocked. I created it. I did it, and I watched it come to an end. But I was taken aback by just how quickly it unraveled. One loose thread, overlooked, and it was over.  Signing my divorce decree was sad and humbling but not devastating. We had

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  • The Kid I Never Knew I Wanted

    The Kid I Never Knew I Wanted

    I never wanted children. Growing up, I never fantasized about future kids because I wouldn’t have them. Kids, to me, were messy and sticky, not funny, and so annoying. Growing up, I had a wonderful and loving mother who put her children first in everything she did. And my brain thought, HARD PASS on that! 

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  • Dear Baby Jesus, Please Don’t Let Me Ruin This

    Dear Baby Jesus, Please Don’t Let Me Ruin This

    When you leave a tumultuous relationship and start one that is actually, what’s the word? Healthy? It can leave your brain going, uh BRO, what’s happening here?! My on-and-off-on-and-off until the end of time relationship was with a very insecure man. He spewed hateful words at me when he lost his temper, then denied ever Read more

  • My Touchstone Couple

    My Touchstone Couple

    When my marriage hit the crapper, I wasn’t shocked. I created it. I did it, and I watched it come to an end. But I was taken aback by just how quickly it unraveled. One loose thread, overlooked, and it was over.  Signing my divorce decree was sad and humbling but not devastating. We had Read more

  • The Kid I Never Knew I Wanted

    The Kid I Never Knew I Wanted

    I never wanted children. Growing up, I never fantasized about future kids because I wouldn’t have them. Kids, to me, were messy and sticky, not funny, and so annoying. Growing up, I had a wonderful and loving mother who put her children first in everything she did. And my brain thought, HARD PASS on that!  Read more

  • Give Me a Break!

    Give Me a Break!

    I don’t understand when people struggling in relationships say, “We are taking a break.” What? Isn’t that a way of saying, let’s see who can have sex with someone else first? I haven’t ever heard of anyone taking a break in real life, and it works out. It always ends in divorce or a break-up. Read more

  • I’m Sorry, a MISTAKE?!

    I’m Sorry, a MISTAKE?!

    This post contains multiple spoilers about Sex and The City and the reboot And Just Like That. However, you have been living in a personal panic room under a bridge if you didn’t know that Mr. Big died in the first episode of And Just Like That. If you grew up as a girl in Read more

  • AARP is Calling

    AARP is Calling

    My Mom told me I would flirt with older men when I was itty-bitty, like 40-year-olds. That makes me laugh and also feel so sad for baby Carrie. What was happening that she needed attention and validation from men who were decades older than her?  My Mom has mentioned to me this particular kid-slut trait Read more

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