So often, after betrayal, we rage against the unfairness of it all. It was HIS mistake , we wail, but I'M paying the price. True tha...

In my last post, one of our commenters, Eat My Scabs (love that name!) noted that she'd moved through the numbness, a stage that trips s...

Regardless of whether an injury is physical or emotional, what keeps us from healing is that all wounds that don’t heal are burdened with...

I recently received this:  In my circumstances of life, I am the other woman. I have been involved with a married man for many months and ...

Last night I went to see Take This Waltz , starring Michelle Williams and Seth Rogan. It's a beautiful movie, like I've come to ex...

“So whatever you do, don’t shut off your pain; accept your pain and remain vulnerable. However desperate you become, accept your pain as i...

The world lost the great  Nora Ephron  last week. When a writer dies, I always lament the unwritten stories that died with them. But Ephro...