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"You know your daddy loves you baby" is one of the cruelest sentences a daughter can hear when her dad is a narcissist. I know this becau...

My stomach knots into a churning ball of magma, my heart beats faster, my breathing gets shallow, I start to shake, my mind races and the...

So many of us grow up with the fairy-tale ideas of marriage, the dictate that we are supposed to grow up, fall in love and (say it with m...

Anything we are uncomfortable dealing with we as a society we create a stigma around it. We shun it, ignore it, change the subject, respo...

Tuesday night I contacted the Suicide Prevention Lifeline. I'd reached a low I hadn't seen in years, they have a call line and a chat fe...

Why do I stay? I don't know. My answer even to myself doesn't seem strong enough, but I'm still married, still "working" through it. I fi...

It's a hot August day, the Husband and I have been texting back and forth about an upcoming event we are getting ready for, we are excite...

I was the most trusting wife on the planet. This is not hyperbole or exaggeration. I was secure and happy in my perfect trust. Why ? Bec...

D-day is the short hand for the day a partners affair is discovered. It's a terrible day, full of pain and confusion. It is a day that is...

This is the only area of infidelity that I feel I have a handle on and probably the one area that sticks in our hearts and minds the long...

I read every blog post and listened to every podcast episode. I asked my therapist and members of my support group, should I or shouldn't...

This is where I'm starting from. I'm a white woman in her 40's, who's twenty pounds heavier than I want to be. I have fibromyalgia. I liv...

I have had lots of day one's. Here's a relatable example: every time I start a diet it is a day one of the new thinner/fitter me. That i...