Emily V. Gordon

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying. ”

In high school, I decided that all of my female friends were stupid and traded them for guy friends. I loved horror movies and heavy metal and used these interests to become a 'guys' girl.' ”

I had a tightly knit group of female friends in elementary school - we called ourselves the Sensational Six. ”

Hindsight is always 20/20, but I imagine a lot of married and divorced people have insights to share about how they felt during their engagement. ”

If a show is a critical success but a ratings flop, I assume that people are just championing the show because it looks cool to root for an underdog. ”

Ghosts of Marriages Past can haunt many aspects of a new relationship - your expectations of what a man should do, how you behave in conflict, your ideas of how commitment should look - they can even make your new man look untrustworthy when he's really behaving normally. ”

I don't remember being put into the coma, but I do have a lot of weird memories from being under. This may be because I was in a coma via medicine rather than trauma. That time period played out for me as one long rambling dream where I was at a hospital to visit my boyfriend, who I thought was in an accident. ”

Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down. ”

If you don't simply communicate with your spouse what household tasks you would like them to do, you are setting yourself up to be angry. ”

When we each focus on being the dominant force in our own universe rather than invading other universes, we all win. ”