2018
A struggling mother of three forms an unexpected bond with the night nanny hired to help with her newborn baby.
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I spent months agonizing over my lack of a partner or high-powered career. But it was my depression that almost upended my dream of motherhood.
They say that having kids changes everything. That is neurologically, psychologically, and economically true.
I feel like dating used to be so simple. People meet, they arrange a time and place and hopefully it turns into happily ever after. Fast forward to now, where almost nothing is done face to face anymore — especially this year.
Why do unmarried women have to choose between motherhood and a love life? Can't we try for both at the same time?
How do you find time? Is it better to date someone else who also has kids? And when should you introduce them?
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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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.
For too long, women have been told that we are terrible at being friends, that we can’t help being cruel or competitive, or that we inevitably abandon each other for romantic partners. But we are rejecting those stereotypes and reclaiming the power of female friendship.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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