Families
Forget the safe word, give me the epidural now, I thought, apparently with some sudden telepathic connection with my doula.

5 Things You Learn When Labor Doesn't Go According To Plan

“It will be long,” they told me. “It will likely be days after your due date,” they advised. “Everything will begin slowly with breaks between Read...
Emily Glover    |   04/08/2016 - 00:00   |   SHARE
Families
#toddlerlogic

A Week Of Parenting A Toddler — In 12 Facebook Statuses I Didn't Post

Parenting a toddler is invigorating, exhausting, dirty, and intense. But since I want my daughter to have cousins (or at least pseudo-cousins) one Read...
Kelly Burch    |   04/08/2016 - 00:00   |   SHARE
Culture
The premise is pretty simple: We each give you one thing to watch, one thing to listen to, and one thing to read over the weekend.

Read/Watch/Listen To This: Chihuahua Police Chase Edition

This week includes mostly chihuahuas. You're welcome. Read...
Jenni Berrett and Jody Amable   |   04/08/2016 - 00:00   |   SHARE
Sex + Love
Some of these beliefs are so oft-quoted they’ve become accepted as fact… despite not being entirely true. Image: iStock.

8 Of The Most Common Sex Myths Relationship Experts Hear

For something almost all of us will do in our lifetimes, there seems to be a lot of misconceptions surrounding sex — particularly sex within long- Read...
The Glow Team of The Glow    |   04/08/2016 - 00:00   |   SHARE
Sex + Love
 really want to meet him, but I don’t know what to do because of the pictures.

Ask Erin: How Do I Tell The Guy I Met On Tinder I'm Not The One In My Pictures?

Dear Erin, OK, I am sure I’m going to catch hell for this, but I created a fake profile on Tinder. I mean, the profile isn’t completely fake, but the Read...
Erin Khar    |   04/08/2016 - 00:00   |   SHARE
Voices
I’ve learned to let people be, even when I believe with my whole heart they are wrong.

How Facebook Changed My Feminism

Last night I almost quit Facebook. I’d had yet another political argument, had my opinions and information dismissed as inaccurate, and I was just Read...
Cecily Kellogg    |   04/08/2016 - 00:00   |   SHARE
Culture
Alexa: Friend? Foe?

8 Ways Amazon Echo (AKA Alexa) Isn't All She's Cracked Up To Be

Alexa is like a nosy neighbor: She’s always listening. That’s how she can respond when you ask her to do something. So, when you’re getting busy on Read...
Catherine Gigante-Brown    |   04/07/2016 - 00:01   |   SHARE
Culture
“What is your husband going to think?” IDGAF.

4 Things I Learned When I Chopped Off My Long Hair

For the first time in 15 years, I didn’t have to ask for permission to get a haircut, so I chopped it all off. Oh, and I bleached it — from very dark Read...
Bridget Brown    |   04/07/2016 - 00:00   |   SHARE
Bodies
As the recovery begins, I am asking myself: How do you deal with being told, “I don’t like you”?

How To Deal With Being Told “I Don’t Like You.”

Somehow, through the ebb and flow of primary school politics, I had made myself an enemy. Out of nowhere, she had decided to take a grudge against me Read...
Maggie Kelly of Mamamia    |   04/07/2016 - 00:00   |   SHARE