Last week, Higher Perspective — a website which “seeks to bring together like-minded individuals [who are] focused on personal growth and expanding their consciousness” — shared a painfully powerful video on their Facebook page: A video about physical abuse. A video about domestic violence. And while the video made me shudder and cringe and cry, I refused […]
Sex and Relationships
What a Hubby Will Do for Nookie. Besides Anything.
By Shelby Spear of shelbyspear.com It’s official. My guy will go to any extreme to get some shizzle. I came home from a six day vacation without him to a house that had been primped, primed, touched up and tinkered with. All in the form of a completed twenty-seven item honey-do list. The head scratcher is […]
Samara in Tinderland: One Woman’s Adventures in Online Dating
By Samara of A Buick in the Land of Lexus Tinder – lowering sexual standards since 2012. Tinder is the fast food of online dating – quick, cheap, and temporarily curbs your hunger. Although I’m sure people have met their significant others on Tinder – just given the sheer quantity using it – it has […]
Divorce Is a Detour
You may not know where your detour is headed, and the road may be terrifying at times, but that’s OK. When my life took a “detour” at 18 years old, I coined myself a “Detourist.” My detour was a decade full of surgeries and medical crises when a coma my senior year of high school changed my […]
This Friendship Is Not All We Want But More Than Enough
By Christine Organ of christineorgan.com I cried this morning. I cried for no reason and for all the reasons. Sometimes that happens. I had been reading through this essay that I will read on Jennifer Scharf’s podcast later today. I wanted to practice reading through it. But also, I wanted to remember. I started reading and with each […]
Dear Kids: This is What to Look for in a Life Partner
By Liv of Live By Surprise A letter to my children about love: I want all three of you to know what love is. I hope that you never have the opportunity to learn from experience what it isn’t. My wish for you is that you find a life partner who understands you right through […]
What Do Men REALLY Want for Father’s Day?
By Heather LeRoss of Tipsy Tiaras With (the hell that was) Mother’s Day still fresh in my mind and Father’s Day looming, I began to wonder what my husband wanted for Father’s Day. Our situation is a bit different in that this is our second marriage and we both have kids from the previous marriage. […]
Wait A Minute, Where Did I Go? (Learning That I am Enough)
By Quenby Schuyler of Q’s Kitchen I am sitting in the bathroom after a big blowout with my husband. Somewhere between the baby, the blowout, and this bathroom it occurred to me that I may have lost myself. The lack of sleep, the crusted clothing covered in spit-up, my mommy muffin top, and the bags below […]