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After 5 years of marriage, 32-year-old Scott* was not in love with his wife and wanted a divorce. To complicate matters he and his wife had a young son. In hopes of doing what was best for their son and themselves, they decided the divorce process [...]
After three years of trying to get pregnant, Chris and Kerri were expecting twins. The twins, born 12 weeks early, would remain in the hospital for almost three months. When they finally came home, it made the most sense for Chris to stay at home with them and for Kerri to go back to work. [...]
Meagan is an attorney, turned stay at home mom with two daughters, 3 and 1. She read a piece I recently wrote with another mother and emailed me to talk about her perspectives on pregnancy [...]
A year and a half ago Kate* gave birth to her daughter. She will not hesitate to tell you she hated being pregnant. She also doesn’t hesitate to tell you what so few will, the enormous frustrations, guilt and changes required to be the mom she wants to be.
Here is a bit [...]
Lane knew her whole life she would be a mom. At 22 years old Lane divorced her husband. Six months later she came out. Nine years later she and her wife Melissa are raising their one and a half year old daughter. Here is a bit of her story.
What were your general concerns of [...]
Does the price of wedding rings indicate anything other than how much a couple is willing to spend? Here are the results of my not so scientific survey with 112 people.
The survey asked two questions:
1) On a scale of 1 – 10 how happy would you say you are / were [...]
Dr. Stephanie, is a licensed psychologist in private practice. She has helped many different clients overcome a number of personal hurdles. I spent an hour talking to Dr. Stephanie about both the issues she discusses most frequently these days and her thoughts on some of the more challenging aspects of relationships.
Here is a bit [...]
Jean is 57. She has never been married and never had children. She never thought about being marriage or having a life partner until now.
Here is a bit of her story.
Did you consciously choose not to marry and not to have children, or is that the way that your life played out?
It’s [...]
Patricia had a two-year job contract in Paris. It was a great opportunity for her, but not for her husband. They decided she would move to Paris while he stayed in Toronto. Four months after returning to Toronto, her husband moved to San Francisco — for two years.
Here is a bit of her story…
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As a wedding planner Robyn Bruns of Red Letter Event Planning helps create the perfect day for Chicago couples. In doing so, she learns a quite a bit about the bride, the groom, and their tastes in flowers, venues and entrees. Sometimes, however, she learns things about couples and their future marriage that perhaps they [...]
There was a time when Betsy thought she was supposed to have kids, but never a time when she really wanted them. In her 20′s she made the decision to not have children of her own. She is comfortable with her decision. Others are not. When birth [...]
In kindergarten, Anne remembers asking herself if she would rather be born a boy or a girl. Her five year old mind was reluctant to choose boy as such a choice would require her to go to war and kill people. But, being a girl she reasoned [...]
Tammy and Kyle have been in a relationship for twenty years. Together they have two daughters, run a business and own property. Tammy describes Kyle as “the person she loves most in life,” yet she never wants to marry him.
Here is a bit of her story.
Why have you never married?
In my mind [...]
Deb is in her mid-fifties. She retired at 45. She is now an artist living with her husband in the mountains of Colorado. Over thirty years ago she decided not to have children. Now three decades later she is defying the adage of “you will regret not having kids when you are older.”
Here is [...]
In August 1991, Troy Davis was convicted and sentenced to death row for a crime he maintains he did not commit – the 1989 murder of Mark MacPhail, a Savannah police officer. During Davis’ trial neither a weapon nor any physical evidence were ever provided. Davis was found guilty based solely on the [...]
Sarah has worked in nude modeling on and off since the 80’s. She did it to put herself through college and to later support herself as she started her own therapy practice. Money was not the only reason she did this – she also used nude modeling [...]
Charlene got started in the phone sex industry 27 years ago when she responded to an ad that read, “Conversationalist. Adult Talk. Work from Home.” She makes about $5 for every 15 minutes she spends talking and listening to phone sex addicts, guys who want to have sex with their mothers and guys who are [...]
Ken went to Vietnam the way many did — involuntarily. For a large part of the year and a half he was there, the U.S. military decided he was to be a sniper. Someone whose sole job was to psychologically dismantle the enemy, to play mind games with them, to instill fear in them — [...]
Amsterdam’s Red Light district consists of street after street, alley after alley lined with windows occupied by women of every age, ethnicity and body type. After six months of witnessing this, I had to know how it worked. How they worked. What these women in the windows thought. What they did. What they didn’t do. [...]
Michiee’s very tall and extremely slender body is one that women envy and men as he tells me, yes, even the straight ones, find themselves enamored by. It would take an effort not to love him. In fact, in the few hours I spent with him I quickly realized it was hard for almost everyone [...]
I have spent the last 5 months walking, running and stumbling past the “women in the windows” in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. The questions that ran through my head were never ending and never answered. One day, I just had to stop and ask. This is [...]
Melissa Bank has struck again. Five years after the enormously successful Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing she has delivered her second book, The Miracle Spot. With the heart and humor that fans have grown to love, Bank brings us Sophie Applebaum, a young woman from Surrey, Pennsylvania whose misadventures in love, life, career [...]
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