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On Trans Motherhood, and My Reality of Never Having Biological Children

By Mey Rude — 2018

“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”

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Becoming a Stepparent

Becoming a stepparent by blending families or marrying someone with kids can be rewarding and fulfilling. If you've never had kids, you'll get the chance to share your life with a younger person and help to shape his or her character.

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Maia Noeder
2018
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My Husband and I Grope Each Other in Front of Our Kids, and Here’s Why

My husband and I grope each other constantly. I don’t think a day goes by without at least one of us copping a feel. I say this proudly because after almost 20 years of being together, we are still hot for each other. And I don’t see any reason to hide this from our kids.

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Elisha Beach
2021
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The 7 Stages of Becoming a Stepparent

Stepparenting itself— that is, forming a relationship with someone else's kid— isn't the hard part. It's the intense, conflicted emotions you experience as part of the transition into becoming a stepparent that are the real killer.

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Blended Family Frappe
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Disengaging Stepmoms: 5 Signs It’s Time to Step Back

Many stepmothers begin the commitment phase of their relationships with an engagement ring. Women who love men with children hear the statistical improbability of successful remarriage and dismiss it, knowing in their hearts that theirs is the love that will beat the odds.

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Brenday Snyder
2013
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Hey, Wicked Stepmother, I Feel Your Pain!

How to stop hating yourself and your step-kid, as well.

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Jessica Schrader
2018
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Falling in Love with Marriage

When a friend first presented to me the arguments for gay marriage, in 1994, I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. In the face of staggering prejudice against us, marriage felt so remote as to be irrelevant.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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Being a Single Mother Made Me Embrace the Sex Drive I Thought Was Dead

Newly single moms can be horny as hell. I can testify.

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Sarah Bregel
2018
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Motherhood Changes What Women Want in a Husband or Partner

They say that having kids changes everything. That is neurologically, psychologically, and economically true.

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Sarah Bregel
2018
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Have Children? Here’s How Kids Ruin Your Romantic Relationship

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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Matthew D. Johnson
2016
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Motherhood and Sexuality by Bette Gordon & Catherine Texier

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.

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Bette Gordon, Catherine Texier
2000
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