After 22 years and parenting nine children with me, my husband declared, “I don’t love you anymore, and to be honest, I probably never did.” For the next year, I clung to the belief that I could hold ...

When an old school friend, Charlotte*, asked me to be her bridesmaid just under two years ago, a cocktail of emotions bubbled up inside of me. I was flattered, of course, and excited too. But I was ...