I’m married, but I’m alone. There is a husband in my home, but I can’t feel him. I see him all the time, but I still feel alone. I hear him low and clear, but I ache for sweet... Read more >>

Since moving to San Francisco, I’ve become more comfortable doing things alone. If you go out to eat alone in the country or in the suburbs, you tend to get stared at, but in the city, people... Read more >>

With my twenty-fifth birthday rapidly approaching, I’ve been thinking a lot about my goals and accomplishments. I feel that I’ve grown a lot as a person, especially within the past year,... Read more >>

For many, Christmas is a time of the year when people get together and the warmth of companionship is undeniable, but for some, Christmas is the day when all you have had to cling to for company over... Read more >>

Basically I had lived with someone for fifty years. One day my husband said that he just didn’t want to work on our marriage anymore. It was difficult for me to wrap my brain around that and I... Read more >>

I’m not sure what kind of bug got under my skin during one college spring break, but I decided that rather than join my friends on whatever adventures they were planning, I was going to go... Read more >>

When a woman is in a long-term relationship and it has grown stale, she tends to engage in what I call magical thinking. It’s part of the process of mourning the loss of romantic love; after the... Read more >>

We’re deep into the school year now. So, how’s it going? I’ll never forget that first morning of kindergarten, when my petite five-year-old daughter had excitedly raced into her... Read more >>

As I ran after the bus that was carrying my passport, my wallet, my phone with the dead battery, and pretty much the whole of my existence on the opposite side of the world, I wondered how people get... Read more >>

A funny thing about the end of a relationship—so many of us get hurt and angry. Now I get angry, but I also want to get out of it completely. I don’t want ties, financial or otherwise to... Read more >>