I thought I found my perfect guy later in college. He was smart, good-looking and funny. We were close in age and were from the same area. He was the guy who would skip classes or work so he could spend more time with me. He was the…
A Name Like Shields Can Make You Defensive I’m sure women all around can relate to what I’m about to touch on. The boundaries of professionalism are certainly pushed on Linkedin. LinkedIn is supposed to be a professional site for networking and connecting with alike minded-people. Rather, for…
I think there is a real fear that comes naturally when you learn you are to become a parent. After-all, you will now be responsible for raising a child, and their life and well-being is literally in your hands. I thought that there was never enough time in the day to…
We’ve all been there. That feeling of waiting as your phone charges because you’ve fully exhausted the battery. All you can do is sit and wait until it’s charged. Sometimes it might take only a few minutes to charge, but nonetheless you grow anxious and find yourself growing increasingly impatient the longer…
When you’ve been in a relationship for a long period of time, you get pretty damn comfortable with each other. It’s not a bad by any means, but being seriously comfortable with someone can cause weirdness. Most couples keep the weirdness under-wraps and out of the public eye, but…
When you become a parent, you start doing some pretty disgusting things. Things that you never would have done prior to becoming a parent. Ever. It’s not bad enough that you have to wipe poop off this little human butt for 2 or 3 years, but now you’re adding in…
After years of marriage, it’s so easy to get comfortable with each other and forget that there is still so much to learn about one another. Life keeps us busy and the routine of being parents and/or working a full-time job can affect the amount of conversation we…
I hang up the phone trying to hold back the flood of tears wanting to start flowing down my flushed and noticeably red cheeks. The words I have just heard echo through my head as I repeat them over and over again. I try to comprehend if what I just…
I’m the 1/8. One in eight individuals and couples experience infertility. Over the last few years I have become more candid about my infertility struggle. My husband and I struggled with infertility for over two years before we conceived our first child. Trying for our second child is turning out to be…