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The Move-In Mrs.
About two weeks after I moved out and before my divorce from my husband was finalized, I had to take my kids over to his house to get...
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Hidden Locations
When our kids got old enough to have cell phones and be walking home from school on their own, I did a lot of research about how to use...
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Bottle Rockets
My husband I didn't fight in our marriage. We didn't yell. We didn't scream. We discussed. I cried. A lot. He told me over and over not...
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Out All Night
In any successful relationship, communication is key. In a marriage, it’s crucial. What happens in a marriage when communication goes...
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Snockered Snogging
I’ve always loved parties. Especially costume parties. And on this Day of the Dead, I was looking forward to throwing the bash of the...
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Stuck in a Snowstorm
At this time in our marriage, we lived an hour or so outside the city in a rural area with dirt roads. My husband worked in the city, and...
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’Til Death Do Us Part
In the last few years of my marriage before we got divorced, I started wishing that my husband would die. If that isn’t a sign that...
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Fireside Flirtations
My husband and I had been married 10 years or so, and one night we went over to the home of a friend for dinner. It was summer. There was...
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Protecting Myself With Padding
When this started to happen, I'd been with my husband for about 20 years. I was the thinnest I'd been in a long time, and I was working...
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The Entertainment System
I had come back in town after a business trip and been home for a few days when my kids casually mentioned to me that a female friend of...
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Be a Disco Ball
A friend sent me this message the other day: A disco ball is hundreds of pieces of broken glass put together to make a magical ball of...
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Hot Tub Footsie
It was after my husband's Christmas work party one year when two of his colleagues (one male and one female) came over for an after part...
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The Snowy Sleepover
My husband I had been married for about 15 years when I was out of town on a business trip. To understand the story fully, some...
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Getting Crotchety
The first time I remembering seeing my husband acting what I'll call physically inappropriate with another woman was about 4 years into...
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The Shared Hotel Suite
We were a year or two into our marriage when my husband had to start planning his first business trip with his new job. We were actually...
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The Best Hubby Birthday Card
My husband and I had been married about two years when I noticed the attention he was getting from a woman he worked with. As it happens,...
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Dancing in the Streets
Okay, so I didn't really dance in the streets. (Do hiking trails count?) I did, however, rediscover the power of dancing. At some point...
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My Bedroom - My Hideout
At some point during my marriage, my house - my home - became my own personal hell. Rather than being a place of love and comfort, it...
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The Sticky Note
One day, it was just a day like any other, I was doing laundry and in the process of taking my husband’s clothes out of the dryer...
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