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My boyfriend and I were nowhere close to getting engaged when we ended things a month ago. It was a smooth parting of ways—two adults looking into each other’s eyes under the Brooklyn night sky, telling each other we liked each other a lot but knew we weren’t ultimately compatible. It had been a little […]
When I turned 40, I felt confident and physically and emotionally strong. Insecurities from my 20s and 30s disappeared. And I still wasn’t looking to get hitched at all, but the funny thing is, I observed that having that attitude made me more attractive to men. I kind of felt like a guy for the […]
“I’m free tonight. I could come over…but if I do, I’m spending the night. It’s a long drive.” My stomach turned as I read his text. My divorce was still fresh, and I hadn’t “done this” in years. Was I going to be good at it? Did I even remember how to have sex? Were […]
“Do you want to get some breakfast?” he asked one morning, his brown eyes sincere and kind. I wasn’t barefaced, but I wasn’t pretty—I had dark circles under my eyes, a smoky eye that looked more like a shiner, and a breakout that I didn’t have time to touch up. I walked my somber death […]
Things with my first husband, Aaron, ended the old-fashioned way. He died. In 2011, Aaron was diagnosed with brain cancer, and three years later he died, leaving me a 31-year-old widowed mother to our toddler, Ralphie. It really was “till death do us part,” but the parting was unlike any other heartbreak I’d ever known, […]
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