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So it happened it again, I forgot to say "Thank You." My sweet husband ran to our local coffee shop to get us coffee. It was a cold, wet and dreary day, and he said he was wanting an Americano...
Six words. “You have early onset Alzheimer’s Disease.” It only took six words to immediately and irrevocably change my family’s life. After almost a year of searching for answers to why my 48-year-old husband was forgetting basic things like what day it...
Though I’ve only held the title of “Mommy” for just shy of three years, it feels like it has been infinitely longer. Most days I can scarcely remember a time before. (Seriously, what did I do with all of...
On Valentine's Day, everywhere you turn there are hearts and flowers and LOVE! Everyone is talking about date nights and visions of romance. And it's all just so sweet and lovely.  But what about when you don't feel like romancing...
One of my favorite things in the entire world is going out on dates with my husband. 19 years ago we went out on our very first date and started a whirlwind of a ride. We would go out...
We're all moms. We all let that modesty fly out the window during labor and delivery for darn good reason. So let's not be shy when it comes to sex, before or after baby. There is one thing that got...
Ladies, stop talking trash about your spouses. Please.  "But I need to vent. I need an outlet! If I bottle it up, I'll explode on him or the kids or some innocent bystander making my non-fat sugar-free hazelnut iced latte." Sure....

This Is(n’t) Us

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If you catch a glimpse of any ad promoting the popular NBC drama This Is Us, then you’re bound to see images of a beautiful, happy family. Their arms are wrapped around each other, their heads may be thrown...
We’ve all seen the posts, “I’m deleting people so if you can read this, you’ve made the cut.” What I’m talking about is the less obvious, elusive un-friending. When you don't even notice someone’s gone.  The most egregious way I’ve encountered...
According to the National Coalition on Domestic Violence, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. This statistic is staggering. The world of teen...
I graduated college with $47,000 in student loans. Then I made a student loan payment every month while I moved cities, got married, settled down and we had our daughter. Six years later, I noticed my balance wasn’t going...
"No one said we were going to be happy. They just said we made a commitment." My friend spoke these words to me about her marriage and my heart sank. She and her husband were miserable. She asked me,...
When Girls’ Nights Out became Moms’ Nights Out, many things changed for us moms. Between our new roles, new looks, and new awareness, it’s impossible to approach going out in the same ways we once did. I wish I...
Have you talked to your partner about sex recently? I'm not talking about just a simple, "Hey do you want to have sex tonight?" kind of talk, but rather an intimate conversation about how your sex life is going...

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