No one ever really prepares you for life. For the hardships, for the highs or the lows, for the intensity of marriage, for the difficulty of relationships, for the loss of loved ones or for the changing of seasons. I feel really underprepared for what I have had to face so far in my adult [...]
I've always heard people say they have an "addictive" personality. This was never something I felt applied to me. I discovered recently, I think I was in denial. I do think I have an addictive personality. Over the past 9 months, I have really been working on getting healthy, which means changing lots of bad [...]
We have been through a good amount of trials in our 9 years of marriage, but the last 2 have by far, been the toughest. While I was pregnant with my son, my husband opened his own business. He had been running it for awhile and been extremely successful so he decided to pursue his [...]
I was always fearful of what having a baby would do to our sex life. I have heard so many horror stories "he will be so turned off after seeing a baby come out of you," "your vagina will never be the same," etc. Well I am here to tell you that our sex life [...]
All throughout college I had an off and on relationship that was heading towards marriage. After 3 years, it ended abruptly, followed by a phone call by his mother, telling me he had been with someone else during our relationship. I began experiencing pain like I had never experienced, and I in no way knew [...]
I find myself forgetting more and more about the past 3 months. I wish so much I would've written through the process. So many things happened that I knew I would want to remember I just couldn't seem to get myself to want to write it. I believed writing it would make it real, and [...]
Over the past year I have seen more than the comfortable amount of marriages fail. I don’t think divorce is really ever an outcome that people are comfortable with, but in my experience with what I have known of marriage and what I was raised with, divorce. doesn’t. happen. but unfortunately it does. A lot. [...]
I have always known that once I love someone, I love them forever. Over the years I have continued to not be able to let those previous relationships in my past go free. It ranges from romantic relationships to friendships but it all hurts the same. People told me as you get older you begin [...]
I thought once I found the man I love and said "I do" I would never have to feel this way again. Lately, I have been finding that to not be true. It's not quite to the extreme of losing him, because I know neither of us are going anywhere, but sometimes it just [...]
Some day she might read this. I doubt she will, but if she ever does I hope maybe she will begin to understand how much I truly loved her, wanted to help her, and how much she hurt me. A couple of years ago I made a great friend. It was the kind of [...]