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By Vanessa K. De Luca Last year, I moved closer to my parents to make it easier for me to check in on them. My dad, 81, is increasingly showing signs of senility and my mom, 78, sometimes has arthritis pain so severe that when the weather is unfavorable she can barely get out of…

By Jill E. Duffy The female midlife crisis is no longer a crisis. It's a reckoning. And some women are finding it's the time of their lives. Women over 40 are pursuing better sex (especially after divorce), competing in extreme sports, and adopting new identities. After decades of body-shaming culture, they’re sloughing off the stigma…

By Lydia Wang The issue began in her early 30s: Jennifer, 38, noticed that she wasn’t sleeping well after drinking even a small amount of alcohol. She’d struggle with insomnia, or wake up too early. The next morning, “I’d feel really fatigued and out of it,” she recalls. “Not necessarily hungover, but just tired and…

By Kara Stevens Despite old stereotypes, women are prudent with money and the numbers back it up. A recent LendingTree survey found that we are more cautious with spending than men. In fact, 51 percent of men admitted to going into credit card debt due to nonessential expenditures, compared to just 42 percent of women.…

By Gila Pfeffer I was eighteen when my 40-year-old mother found the lump. The tumor was 8 cm, a size that made me wonder how she hadn’t caught it sooner, given that her own mother had died of the disease at forty-nine. She reluctantly underwent chemotherapy, which shrank the tumor, and her medical team urged…

By Tiffany Iung I’ve worked in food service since I was old enough to have a job. As a born people-pleaser, I was destined for hospitality, and always dreamed of owning a little place where I could offer my own version of great care and good food.  But it’s hard to open a restaurant, and…

The article was adapted from a piece published originally on The Purse. By Lindsey Stanberry I think I have mostly lived in a place of denial since last year’s presidential election. I woke up the morning after Election Day feeling that sharp pang of deep disappointment many of us know well, wrote a newsletter in…

By Leslie Price and Marquita Harris In January, we asked readers without kids to describe their relationships with their friends who are mothers. Responses poured in; some surprising, some devastating. We were moved by how much kindness, understanding, and patience were captured in all of your thoughtful words.  What we gathered from your responses (and…

By Ines Bellina In late March of 2024, I woke up with a persistent ache in my upper torso that I immediately recognized as a biliary colic. I had been dealing with those symptoms since January and was stubbornly waiting to go to Peru, my home country, to finally get my gallbladder removed. Being hospitalized…

By Nancy Reddy Neither my husband nor I knew anything about babies before ours was born. But I was the one who carried the baby; I was his mother. I’d expected to be transformed. I’d absorbed such deep messages about the magic of motherhood, how once the baby was born, my deep love for him…

By Leslie Price Running for office always seemed like a thing that other people did, and I had no idea how they accomplished it. I always thought these people were to be lawyers, or from families where one or more of their parents were also politicians. But what about us normies? What is the best…

By Vanessa De Luca In my 30s, I was unmarried and ready to have children. I believed I would find the same unconditional, committed relationship I had grown up seeing from my parents. Cut to: ex-husband #1, a friend of my best friend’s husband. That couple decided we’d make a good match, and fixed us…