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Your Monday blues are likely worse if you are going through something you can’t control, like fertility treatment, a parent’s illness, or project deadlines.

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Our parenting standards are high. As our children and families grow, we may struggle to stay on that perfect course.

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Does anyone else feel like it’s tough to make new friends once you get older? You’re not alone in that feeling. Read...

I'll never forget the time someone told me to "stick a tampon in it" — that I was being "crazy" because my "hormones must be through the roof." Read...

The reality is that not everyone wants children. Read...

I think we both sleep a little sounder curled up with each other. And as annoying and cliché as it sounds, it really won't last forever.

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This article by Liv McConnell first appeared on Fairygodboss and has been republished with permission.

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Not to contribute toward society’s habit of picking apart feminine communication patterns, but I’ll say it: in my own life, at least, the tendency to over-apologize was something I had to put effort into unlearning. 

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Financial anxieties are on the rise and, for many of us, triggering memories of the last recession we lived through, in 2008.  Read...

With so many schools across the country closed — and little reason to think they’ll be reopening anytime soon — parents today are forced to get creative about managing their children’s educations at home. Read...

Small talk is about as dreary as the murky skies and as painfully vexing as the overcrowded parkway.

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