I was not intimate with my ex-husband. Not really. Not in the ways that matter. There was a version of closeness that existed on the surface, the kind that comes with sharing a home and a life and the daily routines of a long marriage, but the deeper thing, the genuine emotional nakedness of being ...
10 Viral Date Ideas That Feel Like Being Together in an LDR
Long distance relationships are not for the faint-hearted. I know this from personal experience. There is a particular kind of longing that comes with loving someone who is not in the same room, the same city, or sometimes even the same time zone as you. You learn very quickly that connection is not ...
Why Micro Romance Is the New Love Language
Nobody talks about micro romance. We talk about love languages, about grand gestures, about the dramatic declarations and the sweeping moments that make it into films and onto anniversary cards. We have built an entire cultural language around the big expressions of love and said almost nothing ...
What No One Tells You About Being Happy After Divorce
When you are in the middle of a divorce, or even just thinking about leaving, the conversation around you tends to focus on the hard parts. The grief. The logistics. The way your life has to be rebuilt from the ground up. People talk a lot about surviving divorce. They do not talk nearly enough ...
Dating With Baggage – Why That Is An Unfair Way To Put It
Somewhere along the way, the word baggage became the default shorthand for anyone who arrives at a new relationship carrying the weight of a previous one. It gets used casually, sometimes even affectionately, as though it is simply a neutral descriptor for the complications that come with dating ...
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