I’m Fine.
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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
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
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!
More Words n’ Stuff
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I Don’t Know How to Be Single
Single and ready to mingle. It sounds fun. It sounds exciting. It sounds like a lot of sex is about to happen. It sounds like I can devour all the men I want without an ounce of guilt. Let’s go! But that’s not what being single really is. I have concluded that although I have Read more
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This is Dating?!
After years of being married and then, when that ended, launching myself into another flow-blown relationship, I am back on the dating scene. And holy crap, things have changed. Dating was fun once, right? Back in my twenties, dating was just that: dating. You met someone for a drink or coffee, rarely a meal, and Read more
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Options Blow
If you are ancient, like me, and have been in the online dating world off and on for over 15 years (barf), you remember the good ol’ days of online dating before millions of apps took over our phones. Back in the day, if you were on a dating website, you had to log in Read more
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