Why resign yourself to the dull pain of a mediocre relationship when you’re doing just fine on your own? During Rebecca Traister’s many single years, she was often irritated when the men she dated disrupted her routine. She didn’t like it when they urged her to leave work earlier than she wanted, or when their […]
Nobody knows the private challenges a couple goes through, and each journey differs. If you’re anything like me, you love nosing around other people’s pictures on social media. It’s that guilty pleasure of looking into their lives, without having to speak to or even meet them. But when your feed is constantly updated with selfies of […]
You are not obliged to attend every happy hour, every ornament exchange, every cookie party, every holiday get-together. Choose which events will bring you the most joy, and learn to politely decline the other invitations. This is my first holiday season as a married woman, and I’m loving every moment. This will be the fourth Christmas […]
Life is not about keeping score. Besides, you truly have no idea what is going on with other people. I recently attended a party where a man delivered a long, fairly hostile monologue about his wife’s poor driving skills, giving everyone in the room blow-by-blows of each fender bender and exacting details about how much her […]
