By Eva Grape — 2021
The influence of my Borderline Personality Disorder mother on my friendship style.
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I feel like dating used to be so simple. People meet, they arrange a time and place and hopefully it turns into happily ever after. Fast forward to now, where almost nothing is done face to face anymore — especially this year.
Why do unmarried women have to choose between motherhood and a love life? Can't we try for both at the same time?
How do you find time? Is it better to date someone else who also has kids? And when should you introduce them?
For around 30 years, researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along.
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A baby changes everything—including, oftentimes, your interest in sex. Still, the goal isn’t to get the “old you” back. It’s to figure out who you are now.
Perhaps it is time to open the door on the secret, sexual lives of mothers, even if it is hard for children—and we, as readers, have all been children—to contemplate this taboo: our own mother’s sexuality.
The people you surround yourself with have a profound impact on your happiness.
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”
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Love is not found in just one person, but in many people and many aspects of our daily lives.