Keening
July 17th, 2024 | by Patricia Harrelson
My milk ducts equate grief with suckling, a confusing equation calculated astonishingly in my breast
Browsing the "Relationships" Tag
It Breaks My Heart to Leave You Behind
March 14th, 2024 | by Elisa Sinnett
You’re staying in Texas, and I’m leaving in a few days
We Are the Cry
July 19th, 2023 | by MD
That I managed to not be aware of my own queerness in two of the most famous places to be queer in the United States is somewhat of a bitter pill to swallow
Why More Parents Should Let Teens Read Sex Scenes
July 11th, 2023 | by Kerry Chaput
If popular culture exposed me to sex as a positive experience, maybe I wouldn’t have been so afraid
Swagger Like Us
July 5th, 2023 | by Sumitra Mattai
Our first child was two years old when my husband told me I’d “lost my swagger.”
The Nighttime Arms Race
April 18th, 2023 | by Teresa Douglas
Tonight, I’ll gladly exchange sleep for sex with my husband
The Jump
June 28th, 2022 | by Jessica O'Dwyer
We’d arrived at the drop zone in the early morning, ready for my boyfriend to teach me to tandem jump.
Honors
November 15th, 2021 | by Nicole Lynn Lewis
Excerpted from Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families. Copyright 2021. Excerpted
To Stay or Run Away
October 15th, 2021 | by Dodie Davey
The baby is sleeping. I am awake, wondering (again) if I am crazy. I have Googled “how to tell if
I’D PREFER NOT TO—on Debating the Choice to Stay Childless
April 12th, 2017 | by Sarah Mirk
I’ll be honest: I don’t really like babies. I don’t have that “mothering instinct.” The smaller, the scarier, I say.
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