I’m a self-employed hairstylist. While I pride myself on being a dedicated listener and keep an open and nonjudgmental mindset with each of my customers, I have one client who always finds ways to make me uncomfortable. She’s an older woman who is very high maintenance and has biweekly appointments. Every week she moves her…
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My sister, “Rose,” and I are both in our late 30s, but she has always been supported by our parents. I think she suffers from anxiety and possibly mild bi-polar disorder, but to my knowledge she’s never been diagnosed so I don’t know for sure. However, I strongly believe that my parents are hurting her…
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I meant to post this on Friday and got distracted, but who’s paying close attention to days of the week anymore anyway, right? Hope you all are having a restful weekend. We’re looking forward to a snow storm tonight and throughout tomorrow and hope that motivates the kids to bundle up and get outside (it’s…
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I’m a mother of a soon-to-be 5-year-old boy. His dad and I are not together, and we haven’t been for a couple years now. When I first gave birth, the relationship between us was pretty rocky. He was still young and not ready to be the consistent dad he needed to be. I then became…
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I met the man of my dreams – “Erik” – on a solo trip to Alaska. I was from Seattle, he from the Netherlands. We fell in love nearly immediately and were inseparable for the two weeks we were both in Alaska. At first I told myself, “This is just a vacation fling, so get…
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