I was really just minding my business. After a flurry of trending topics, passive aggressive Facebook updates, disgruntled inspired blog posts and helpful hints that weren’t really that helpful, I just couldn’t help but be drawn into the fray. People were having problems. And I didn’t want any problems. But everywhere I looked it was forced into my view; Valentine’s Day. And I wasn’t avoiding it for the obvious reason of not having a Valentine.
This morning I woke up with a start, looked at my clock and realized I didn’t need to get up for another 30 minutes. I attempted to get back to sleep with no success. I also attempted to get out of bed with no success. Here is my dilemma. I felt too restless to fall back [...]
I met Joe about a month before I turned twenty. My father was dying slowly from lung cancer, one of several reasons that I did not wish to go stay with my parents over the summer. They had sold the house that I grew up in on Staten Island and now lived in Middletown, New [...]
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Having a baby is a beautiful experience, one that can bring a couple closer together than ever before. However, despite this intimate occurrence the two of you have shared, there is one form of intimacy that is not always so forthcoming, sex. One of the most common complaints of married couples after a child is born [...]
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