In many ways, a parenting prenup is the true definition of planned parenthood. Even if you don’t pay attention to celebrity marriages and divorces, there’s something about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s split that parents, or anyone who wants to be a parent one day, should pay attention to. Jolie and Pitt have six children […]
Parental leave and workplace flex time, while extremely important, only go so far. It’s clear that the one thing facing all families today is that parents are struggling to do it alone and do it well. In 2001, Andrea Yates, a Houston mother suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis, drowned her five children in the […]
The beauty of divorce at midlife is that we are free to create the life we want without societal expectations of what it “should” look like. “Do you think you’d still be married if all the bad stuff hadn’t happened?” a friend asked me several years ago. “I don’t know,” I answered after a few minutes, […]
I value my freedom as much as I value love and commitment. For eight years, I was in a relationship that upset a lot of people. “So, are you and James ever going to get married or live together or something like that?” It’s a question I heard a lot during the time James and […]
