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The Assumptions We Make About Women Who Serve I have heard people make assumptions about women who served in the military, especially when the conversation turns to dating and relationships. Some men immediately wonder whether a woman who spent years around mostly men must have been sexually involved with a lot of them. That stereotype

When Basic Care Feels Extraordinary One of the hardest lessons I have learned about dating is that the first person to treat you well is not necessarily the person meant to stay. Sometimes that person simply introduces you to what healthy treatment should have looked like all along. This becomes especially important when you have

The Question That Would Not Leave Me Alone When did you stop loving me is the kind of question that can sit inside a person long after a relationship has changed. I kept wondering whether there had been one moment when your heart turned away or whether it happened little by little. Maybe there was

When People Call It Luck I have heard people look at somebody’s life and say, “You’re so lucky,” as though everything good just fell out of the sky. They see the opportunity, but they do not always see the years that came before it. They see the open door without knowing how many closed doors