Love + Relationships

I have been a proud military wife for over five years. That's a short time compared to some, but in that time we've been through training, the 'real world' of active duty, more deployments than I care to count,...

An old acquaintance once posted on her social media something about horseshoes being better than circles. She was referencing another social media post, this one from Glennon Doyle, that reads, "If you are standing with other women in a circle and...

Oh we all imagine the bliss of our little families after we have children.  We envision sitting on the couch snuggling with our husbands, watching the children play nicely on the floor in front of us.  We see peaceful...

This post is part of our True Life series where OKC moms are sharing real trials & tribulations they have gone through as mothers, as wives, and as women.  There's no instruction manual on how to go through infidelity. When...

You’ve gone through it. The rollercoaster of marriage, the ups and downs, the disagreements, the uncomfortable conversations, the hurtful words, the “entanglements,” and in some cases, the abuse. Things have been said that you can’t take back, loving words...

In the recent 2016 movie, Bad Moms, Amy Mitchell reflects on her troubled marriage, recalling that she and her husband had married so young, that they never really got to have the usually carefree period people typically enjoy in...

I never thought we'd be those parents. I imagined we would both be working full-time jobs and be sending our kids to daycare, but to be completely honest, I really didn't think about it all that much until we...

I am officially, OFFICIALLY a divorced woman. It took me 18 months to get to this point in my life. I have learned so much through each passing month, made mistakes, and felt like I was doing the cha-cha...

As a lawyer, I often encounter people in the worst moments of their lives. Many times in a consultation, people pour out their pain, their struggles with issues of domestic violence and/or abuse at home or with a significant...

Lately I have had several friends become first-time moms. I’m absolutely obsessed with all of their precious babies, of course, but what I have found most fascinating is watching their personal transformation. I LOVE LOVE LOVE watching my friends...

  Turn on the TV and you'd think the typical American dad is a lazy, sex-obsessed, golf playing bumbling buffoon who can barely hold down a job.   For example, I was flipping through channels the other day when a bleach commercial came on....

Emotional trauma, especially traumatic events in childhood, can rewire the brain to create innate reactions like panic, terror, anger, etc. in potentially similar situations. Psychologically speaking, it's the most basic form of self-preservation. Shortly after I got married, deep,...