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My husband had a stroke three months ago, and I cannot wait for him to die. We’ve been married 35 years and all those years were miserable and bitter in my memory. I was a docile wife who waited on and catered to my husband’s every whim. But he repaid it horribly by being an awful husband. He battered me physically and emotionally. He disrespected and humiliated me in front of his women. He went from one girlfriend to another, had five children out of wedlock, and only cared for himself.
If you found parenting a child to be the challenge of a lifetime—which it is, really—wait till you have to play parent to your parent. No school, no book, no social group ever prepares you for it.
YESTERDAY was the Solar New Year, the first day of Aries and the first day of spring. Man’s original God...
As a woman who got married at a young age, had a child, and became a single mom all in...
My best friend and her husband are residents abroad, but divorced three years ago after they found out they got married for the wrong reasons. They were both on the rebound and thought that a few laughs were good enough for them to forget their individual pasts.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — A Kentucky country clerk who went to jail for defying a federal court’s orders to issue same-sex...
I was a victim of date rape in college when I was 17 years old. I was so drunk I don’t even remember what happened. I just knew the beast who cornered me the whole evening was the married brother of my dorm mate. To hide my pregnancy from my parents, I asked to go to the province of my mother in the south and stay with my favorite aunt and “get to know life,” I said. I was a problem child, and they were only too glad to let me go. We’re five siblings; I am the only girl and the most spoiled.
WHEN did I slip from matron to elderly? It seems like only yesterday that cousin Ninit and I were playing...
Christmas is the time of the year when being alone gets magnified. I am separated and my only child is abroad. At my age, and by choice, I can count the number of friends I consider family in one hand. They have gone through fire like me.
I am a 29-year-old male working abroad. I met a Filipina in the company I work in. She is a single mother with two daughters. She is hiding that from everyone and she doesn’t know that I know.
