By Danya Ruttenberg — 2016
What if our own crucible of self-sacrifice can teach us more about enlightenment than male mystics ever could?
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Don’t wait for the most convenient time to rebuild intimacy. You’ll be waiting a long time.
Newly single moms can be horny as hell. I can testify.
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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I found out the hard way that stress-fuelled muscle tension isn’t just for your neck and shoulders.
A baby changes everything—including, oftentimes, your interest in sex. Still, the goal isn’t to get the “old you” back. It’s to figure out who you are now.
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.
I wanted to give them better than what I had. It wasn't easy.