There’s a strange kind of silence that follows certain dates, the kind that doesn’t feel empty so much as unfinished. You get…
There’s a quiet story many people begin telling themselves after enough confusing romantic experiences, and it rarely sounds dramatic. It sounds reasonable,…
Before becoming single, many of us have an image of what life will be like: freedom, independence, and self-discovery. We envision spontaneous…
Single life is often depicted as glamorous: an endless stream of spontaneous adventures, personal growth, and effortless freedom. Before stepping into it,…
Before becoming single, you might have heard people talk about how freeing and empowering it is to live life on your own.…
Most people don’t decide to become the steady one in a marriage. It happens gradually, through small moments where someone needs calm,…
When people think about marriage difficulties, they usually imagine a clear moment where something gives way. But for many couples, difficulty doesn’t…
No one talks much about marriage difficulties until they’re already inside them. It isn’t the dramatic kind, also not the kind with…
It’s easy to assume that missing someone means you want them back. Sometimes that’s true. Other times, what keeps surfacing isn’t the…
Memory has a way of keeping the version of ourselves we became in a relationship, even as the details of the relationship…
