I always wondered when I would begin to feel the biological urge to have a baby. When I was 25 and he was 28, my former partner told me that he wanted to have kids by his 30th birthday. Instead, when the day arrived, I threw him a surprise party and drank most of a…
It was the first day of September. As we climbed the rocky spine of Giant’s Stairs along the coast of Maine, the sky above us was the kind of blue that only exists in late summer, and waves crashed against the base of the cliff. It was one of the countless day trips that Chris…
On my first date with the man who is now my husband, as the realization began to form that we might have each found the person with whom we could happily spend years of our lives, we discussed the unlikely possibility that either of us would ever want to get married. Less than a year…
Earlier this year, I told the story of how I met, loved, and lost the person I once considered my soulmate—and why it was ultimately for the best. The concept of “soulmates” is a mystery that I’ve been unraveling for nearly a decade. Today, I want to dig into my beliefs about soulmates, developed through…
I could never have anticipated that within days of moving to Boston to begin my first semester of college in 2008, I would be dropped directly into the center of the most cryptic, heart-rending story that I would ever encounter. I still hesitate to commit his name to the page. Knowing our history, it seems…
