On this page you'll find the ten most recent articles about relationships. There is a whole other category for just family so this is any kind of relationship topic. These articles are inspired by interviews on The Art of Imperfect Adulting show.
Camille Miller was sitting beside a pool when she decided to end her 22-year marriage. Her husband had just jumped into the water. Moments earlier, she had asked him a simple question about money, and his answer changed everything. She stayed in the same chair, picked up her phone and ...
It might look like identity change is a single dramatic moment: a walkout, a public break, a clean line between before and after. The truth is often messier. For many people, the real work of deconstruction happens in the small, repeated choice to keep asking questions after everyone around them ...
Paige Lavelle was standing in her kitchen holding a white coffee mug that matched all her other coffee mugs when the question arrived, uninvited: who is this person, and when did I lose touch with her? That kitchen had been designed on purpose. Every surface, every finish, every decision reflected ...
We teach women to watch the parking lot, the elevator, the dark alley. We hand them pepper spray and tell them to walk with their keys between their fingers. What almost nobody teaches them is how to spot danger when it looks like someone they trust, someone with a title, ...
Grief does not wait for you to be ready. It shows up in the middle of your regular Tuesday and rearranges the furniture in your mind, and most of us are never handed a manual for what to do next. Some people throw themselves into work. Some people disappear into ...
It’s possible for a person to spend decades living at half capacity, and they might not even know it. They show up to work, to relationships, to dinner. And they perform. Not in the theatrical sense, but in the quiet, exhausting way of someone who has quietly decided that the ...
St. Patrick’s Day, Santa Monica. A new mom is pushing a stroller through a crowded promenade, watching strangers laugh and drink and exist with zero effort. She is six months postpartum, sleep-deprived to the point of cognitive fog, physically broken from a delivery that fractured her tailbone, and completely invisible ...
When the golf cart came around the bend carrying her toward the aisle, Elizabeth Rivas already knew something was wrong. Her partner of five years was being held upright by his parents on either side. By the time she reached the altar of the Dominican Republic wedding she had spent ...
A common story about how people end up somewhere new will tell you they followed a job, a family member, or a plan. Stephanie Benedetto followed something harder to name. In 2022, she was living comfortably in Tampa Bay, Florida, renting a house with her partner of two years and ...
Life after major upheaval rarely arrives as a single, dramatic event. More often, it comes in a cluster, a cascade of things falling apart at once, that leaves you standing in the wreckage of a life that used to make sense. For Becky Mollenkamp, that cluster arrived in 2010, when ...