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,...
Huntstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images There is nothing funnier or sadder in this world than a fragile man. I don’t mean a sensitive man, or a medically delicate man. I mean a man who feels he is constantly fighting for his life to maintain some sort of tough guy status. It’s sad because, gosh, what an awful way...
Tassii/E+/Getty Images Boundaries can be a lot of things for a lot of people. They can be hard lines drawn in the sand (do not cross!) for toxic family members. They can be fluid, ever-changing parameters to keep a relationship in the safe space you’ve dedicated to it. And sometimes they can be a temporary...
skynesher/E+/Getty Images This story is an “as told to” and anonymous. The mom in this story is a mother of three, in her 30s, living in the Southeast. I’ve never thought my husband and I had a “boring” sex life. We both take care of each other very well, there’s plenty of foreplay, lots of...