I’ve always found Valentine’s Day to be incredibly alienating. Before I met Charles, I spent every Valentine’s Day, especially while in my early 20s, with my girlfriends. I was/am an independent woman “who don’t need no man.” I lived and…

Charles and I had a fairytale start to our love story. We met and fell in love fast and took the bullet train to marriage. Within the period of a year, we fell in love, got engaged, got married, and…

On the eve of my twenty-first birthday, my sister texted me this message. Dad wants me to give him your Facebook password. I thought you should know. That day I had forced myself to the university gym. I had been…

I was definitely a girl who thought she wasn’t going to struggle in marriage. I met my guy. The love of my life. My person. And to be fair, it was a bit of a fairytale. We met and fell…

We’ve received a few requests to post our vows online. Charles’ tasked us (me) with keeping our vows under 300 words, so we could find a way to succinctly share our love to each other on our wedding day. We…

Eight months ago, I was blissfully living a very single, focused, and uninhibited life. We are talking forever third wheel, single women’s symbol, type of single. I had no intention of marriage in 2017, 2018, and possibly a few years…

My future partner is an incredibly loving and capable homebody. He is an introvert and enjoys his silence and alone time better than anyone I know. I, on the other hand, find all my energy and joy in human interaction.…

I am getting married late 2018 to the most incredible man I have ever met. This change from single to almost married happened over the course of 6 weeks and I transitioned from a very proud, comfortably single woman to…

I’m still not sure why I reached out to her that night. But everything changed when I did. But first, I need to backtrack a bit. All I can tell you — fo’ real, fo’ real — is the worst…