Before I finally decided to try for a baby, I made sure my career was in a stable and comfortable place to allow me to step back for a while. To reach this place, I invested several years in making a name for myself in the company I still work…

Entitling your book “I’m Glad My Mom Died” says more about you as a person than your mother. — I was reading yesterday a story in the New York Times about a woman who wrote a book about her dead mother called “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” which is a memoir of a girl that has been abused by her mother to live her dream of becoming an actor. …

Contains references to the book “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel van der Kolk — A few months ago, my family and I went through the traumatic experience of a car accident in which my husband lost control of his car resulting in a person losing their life. …

At least I can use my bad experiences to pay for therapy. — Did you ever regret telling a secret to someone? I did when I was a kid. Not only once but multiple times, I shared very intimate happenings and thoughts with other kids I thought they were friends with. …

TLDR; No. — I wouldn’t say I like too many things about the Ukrainian President, and I still don’t trust he’s more than a skilled actor who successfully delivered what has been told by those more powerful than him. Yet, I can’t judge Olena Zelenska harshly for her Vogue photoshoot. According to my…

We learn how to do relationships from our parents. — We compare more often than we like to admit. I usually only compare myself to my old self. Still, every so often, I also compare myself to others, and especially my mother, in a sort of sanity check to ensure I’m as different as possible from her. So naturally, it…

Parents need to act like parents, not as friends. — The story I’m about to tell you has been sitting with me for over a decade, during which I never dared to bring it to the surface. It almost felt like passing by a closet with all kinds of rags, which you dreaded looking at, seeing from the corner of…

And I hope he never will. — It was a dark November night when I wrote my first piece to be published on Medium. …

Good sex during a marriage is not a myth. — Sex is, by far, one of the most important components of a relationship, yet, as a relationship progresses, we often find ourselves less interested in it than we were when we began dating. Novelty, or the discovery phase we experience when exploring a new sex partner, is consumable. …