marriage

...[M]en get a lot of praise for the “extra-credit work” they do in regards to domestic labor (the actual house cleaning and keeping work) and emotional labor (the invisible work that ensures the rest gets done) no matter what day of the year.

Last week, the internet went into an understandable uproar when a Christian woman decided to take to Facebook to talk about how she is

So, here I am. Two kids, married to a trustworthy, kind, provider who is married to his job. Is it time to leave my husband?

I suddenly understood why I felt this intense pressure to make my lesbian wedding so wildly spectacular — to stick to the homophobes.

Restoring love is more important than resolving conflict when attempting to save a marriage. Conflict is easily resolved if there is a foundation of love.

Sharon is so intensely interesting to me in The Sinner. We get to see a fat woman who is over thirty exercise extraordinary sexual power.

I never imagined myself being anyone’s wife so I grieved for my single life when I got married. I began to secretly long for the life I’d left behind.

I understood in no uncertain terms because of purity culture that having sex outside of marriage was the worst thing I could do as a young woman.