Mixed Feelings: How to Make Friends after Thirty
The problem is we tend to let romantic love eclipse all else.
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Mixed Feelings: A Better Version of Love
You are free to love others as if it were a pleasure and a privilege, because that’s exactly what it is.
Mixed Feelings: A Valentine to Aging Women
Letting go of these ideas about a woman’s value feels like the obvious thing to do, but it’s really hard.
Mixed Feelings: Two Roads Diverged at a Picket Fence
Here we are standing the woods. Which path should we take?
Mixed Feelings: Your Divorce Won’t Ruin Your Kids
Marriage is one way of housing love. But there are a hundred other houses—sometimes you just have to build them yourself.
Mixed Feelings: Am I Too Fat For Love?
We don’t like to think that love traffics in the same biases that shape our culture—but of course it does.
A Desi Win: Trust No Aunty by Maria Qamar
What started off as a coping mechanism to deal with the widening generational gap within immigrant families, Qamar has shaped into a new philosophy for cultural in-betweeners.
Mixed Feelings: How Do You Break a Heart?
What should love cost us? What do we owe one another? What, especially, do we owe those who have chosen to love and trust us?
Going Off-Script: A Conversation with Mandy Len Catron
Mandy Len Catron discusses How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays, what makes for a thoughtful love story, and the politics of love.
Mixed Feelings: Happy Wife, Happy Life
Ending a relationship is hard, but it’s not as hard as quitting an institution. And the thing we often forget about marriage is that it is an institution.