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The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was di...more

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The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

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Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Wo...more

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I remember thinking that no one had ever told me how much I would love my child; now, of course, I realized something else no one tells you: that a ch...more

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But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your...more

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People always say that once it goes away, you forget the pain. It’s a cliché of childbirth: you forget the pain. I don’t happen to agree. I remember t...more

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But the truth is you don't always know you're getting a divorce. For years, you're married. Then, one day, the concept of divorce enters your head. It...more

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. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely t...more