Love What Was Shown to Me

Love What Was Shown to Me

If I know how to love anything or anyone at all, I learned it from watching two specific people do it for their entire lives. They’ve been doing it since 1964, which means they’ve been at this longer than most people have been alive. She was 17. They...
Read the Undercurrent

Read the Undercurrent

I have failed at this. More times than I want to count. So when I say this, I’m not talking down from some high ground I’ve always occupied. I’m talking from the mess I’ve made when I missed it. Women often lead with the surface layer. What...
Gratitude Over Attitude

Gratitude Over Attitude

You don’t like what your man is doing, or not doing. You’re frustrated, maybe you’ve been frustrated for a while now, and it keeps coming out sideways. Criticism. Blame. Contempt. And you wonder why nothing changes. I’ll tell you why: what...
Apologies Heal You Too

Apologies Heal You Too

I hear people say it all the time: apologies are meaningless, changed behavior is all that matters. And I understand where that comes from. Words without action are hollow. Saying sorry and doing the same thing again the next day is not an apology, it’s a ritual...
How We Each Fail

How We Each Fail

Let me give you the direct version because the people who need to hear this don’t need it softened. Women have specific patterns that damage relationships with men, and men have specific patterns that damage relationships with women. Neither side gets a pass....