Emma Chao/ Scary Mommy For many kids, summer is an excuse to bend the rules a bit and get more iPad time. And while that’s all fine and good, as a parent it’s nice to be able to balance screens out with some more low-fi pursuits. Lucky for you, the editors at Scary Mommy have...
AscentXmedia/E+/Getty Images Summer always has a magical quality about it, but the summer solstice is especially mystical. It’s more than just an astronomical event; it’s a cultural phenomenon rooted in deep traditions, spanning from paganism to the Neolithic era. The longest day of the year marks the traditional "midsummer," and for literal centuries and centuries,...
ZeynepKaya/E+/Getty Images Do you know someone who has had an emotional affair, or whose partner had one during their relationship? Maybe you’ve done it yourself — and you wouldn’t be alone in that, by the way — or experienced that pit in your stomach finding your partner’s texts with someone else. Emotional affairs are a...
Vladimir Vladimirov/Getty Images The conversation started when one of my co-workers popped into our team Slack chat to vent about her husband. Before long, we were all weighing in with our own war stories of weaponized incompetence and how, sometimes, the simmering resentment toward our partners just sort of spills over. A few days later,...