Welcome to Ask A MWLTF (Yes, that’s Mother Who Likes to F*ck.), a monthly anonymous advice column from Scary Mommy. Here we’ll dissect all your burning questions about motherhood, sex, romance, intimacy, and friendship with the help of our columnist, Penelope, a writer and mental health practitioner in training. She’ll dish out her most sound advice for parents on the delicate dance of raising kids without sacrificing other important relationships. Email her at askpenelope@scarymommy.com. My husband and I are great friends and co-parents, but the drudgery of raising kids and managing a home together has killed our sex life. Neither...
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Why We Get So Invested In Fictional Characters — & What It Says About Us
Disney Never in my life have I cried more over fictional characters than I have watching TV in 2025. I won’t spoil it for those of you who still need to catch up on current seasons, but suffice it to say some of the most popular series right now have killed off characters that we’ve all come to know and love over the years: 9-1-1, The Last of Us, 1923, Criminal Minds, Handmaid’s Tale… the list honestly goes on and on. You’ve been warned. But late one night, when I literally woke up (and terrified) my sleeping husband with the...
Why We Should Be Calling Girls "Fancy" & Not "Beautiful" When They Dress Up
TikTok We want our children to know they are magical in every way. They’re smart, resourceful, witty, funny, kind, and, of course, beautiful. But how we tell them these things also matters, and life coach and TikTok creator Rachelle Indra recently shared a nuance that changed the way she thought of offering compliments to girls: “Tell your daughters they’re beautiful when they’re being authentic — tell them they look fancy when they’re getting dressed up. “ Indra explains that she was a stepmom at one point, and she recalled a time when her stepdaughters were dressed in princess dresses with...
New Jersey Law Would Give Parents Paid Time Off For School Events
SDI Productions/E+/Getty Images To be a parent is to agree to being pulled in a million directions basically all the time and never is that truer than at the end of the school year. You work? Well, that doesn’t stop the end of year concerts, plays, celebrations, graduations, school meetings, and other requirements of “Maycember.” And it seems as though politicians in New Jersey recognize that and have proposed a bill that would incentivize businesses that give parents time off to attend school events with a tax credit. Senate bill 172, proposed by Republican Vince Polistina Democrat Teresa Ruiz would...