Tag: single motherhood
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Before we get into it, here’s how this post works. These lyrics are read without context—no backstory, no personal history, no explanation of who or what inspired them. Just the song as it exists on the page, the way a listener would hear it the first time through. After that, we’ll break open what’s actually…
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(And Somehow Hits Harder at 32 Than It Did at 18) There’s a question they love to ask in school—one that follows you from classroom to classroom like it’s doing something important. Where do you see yourself in five years? At eighteen, it felt expansive. Like the future was a blank page waiting for you…
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Some Roles Are Assigned Early Every family has its quiet systems. Not the ones anyone writes down or talks about openly, but the ones that develop slowly through experience. They form in response to tension, to uncertainty, to the simple need for survival. When my parents split up, my sisters and I developed one of…
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At some point, dating apps stop feeling like possibility and start feeling like pattern recognition. Not because everyone is the same, but because the presentation is. Same photos. Same answers. Same claims. Different faces, identical scripts. This isn’t cynicism. It’s data collection. I stayed long enough to notice the repetition, long enough to test my…
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A love letter to the women who stopped apologizing for choosing themselves. The Myth of Completion Somewhere between Disney movies and dating apps, we were brainwashed. Conditioned to believe that a woman’s story isn’t whole until a man enters the frame—until there’s a ring, a “Mrs.” before your name, and a happily ever after that…
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When Sleeplessness Isn’t Mania — It’s the Weight of Everything Anybody who knows me knows I don’t do all-nighters.Jamie used to make fun of me for it — no matter what we were doing, I’d hit my wall by 2AM like clockwork. My brain would just…power down. So when I stayed awake for nearly a…
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Disclaimer: This post isn’t necessarily about my own situation. Some stories are inspired by shared experiences, conversations, and the patterns too many of us recognize all too well. The Child Support Conversation Nobody Wants to Have Since I’m going through a divorce, my feed has suddenly been flooded with videos and think-pieces about child support—and…
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The Custody Math That Doesn’t Add Up Disclaimer: Yes, I’m in the middle of a divorce—but this blog doesn’t necessarily reflect my own situation. Some stories are pulled from real conversations, shared experiences, and that collective female sigh we all exhale when the same pattern shows up again…and again. Everywhere you look, there’s a guy…