November 20, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Over coffee, I told my best friend about the conversation I had had with my boyfriend the previous night. “If things haven’t changed by May,” I said, “I’m going to leave.” “Will you really do it?” she wondered, to which…
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September 7, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
As close as married couples are, each individual still needs personal space. In the words of Lebanese poet and philosopher Khalil Gibran, “Stand together, yet not too near together, for the pillars of the temple stand apart.” Gibran’s words may…
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In a quiet restaurant, my attention was captured by the family in the booth across from my own. Waiting for their order to be filled, the mother spoke loudly into a cell phone while the teenage son listened to music…
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November 26, 2014 Friends and Peers
While every woman knows that friendships may change once children enter the picture, rarely is it in the way we expect. Sure, single friends might not come around as often, and childless friends may not understand the new constraints; that’s…
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October 13, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
Out of every 1,000 marriages, nearly four will end in divorce before the seven year mark, or so says the United States Census Bureau. But numbers and statistics don’t provide an accurate picture of the reality of divorce, and there…
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The obligation a child feels towards elderly parents is a mirror of the care the parent took of the child in earlier years. Seventeen years old, the eldest girl of five children, I felt crushed by responsibility and eager to…
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