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I got married for the first time the day after I turned 18. A year later, my first child was born; I was just 19 years old.The next few years would bring two more children, along with the responsibilities and costs of raising a family in the US. My first…
On a Friday in 2017, I was sitting at my desk when my heart started thundering out of my chest.I took a few deep breaths, thinking it would pass, but it didn’t. My heart raced faster, and it became difficult to breathe. I mumbled something to my colleagues, grabbed my…
After living in Denver for three years, I finally met a group of women who all seemed to be looking for the same thing: an unfiltered, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” type of community.It felt like a dream — fun and easy friendship that could get beautifully deep, as…
The sun was shining, the sea was glistening, and the woman in front of me looked every bit the boss of this little slice of paradise in Thailand.Dressed in breezy beachwear — a matching set with bold prints in yellow, pink, and orange — she stepped out of the hotel’s…
Shortly before my 23rd birthday, I was diagnosed with Asperger’s, now known as autism spectrum disorder.I’d been studying to become a high school English teacher. However, after a difficult substitute teaching internship, I decided that path wasn’t for me.The glitzy city of Boston felt like the logical next step, so…
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I had always wanted to live outside the US — to experience the world and myself in a new way. But when the opportunity finally came, I didn’t realize how difficult it would be.In 2017, I was 46 and dating a French man. After visiting the city of lights several times,…
Ebonye Zeno spent four hours a day commuting in Los Angeles traffic to get her daughter to private school.Then the pandemic hit, and their worlds went remote. Like so many other Americans, they realized: “We could live somewhere else,” Zeno, 51, said.After three decades in LA, Zeno said it felt…
My Gen Z children’s view and attitude toward work were a wake-up call. They taught me a whole new way to live by not making work my entire identity. Of course, that was easier said than done.So, I went to therapy, and my therapist challenged me to think about my…
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