The Moment I Knew: Essay Contest Winners

In anticipation of our 'Moment I Knew' Meetup events in Los Angeles and New York City--and all throughout the country, through Meetup.com--we partnered with SheWrites.com to solicit essay submissions for our contest. Two readers--one in Los Angeles, and the other in New York--were chosen to read their essays at our events, but other fantastic submissions warranted publication as well. Below, our contest winners.

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Writer Stephanie Urdang's writes about . "The roof recently sprang a big leak in the bedroom, a perfect metaphor for our broken marriage. Jeff was famous for knocking down walls, building extensions, and never finishing anything. His maniacal creations left our house cold, wet, and breezy. If it warmed up and the ice melted, as was predicted, there would be a steady drip, like water torture, right over our thirty thousand dollar bed," she writes. Read the full piece here.

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Writer Stephanie Urdang's writes about . "The roof recently sprang a big leak in the bedroom, a perfect metaphor for our broken marriage. Jeff was famous for knocking down walls, building extensions, and never finishing anything. His maniacal creations left our house cold, wet, and breezy. If it warmed up and the ice melted, as was predicted, there would be a steady drip, like water torture, right over our thirty thousand dollar bed," she writes.

Read the full piece here.

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[DrSnuggles]

09:49 AM on 04/20/2011

Interesting collection of essays - the stories in them run the whole gambit - from abusive spouse to cheating spouse all the way down to people who clearly have only themselves to blame for the failure of their marriage.

There's a couple in here where it's pretty obvious "Something was wrong and I never talked to my spouse about it." I think a great deal of marriages fail because the unhappy partner fails to communicate to the other - I can only lay this at the feet of the unhappy partner, because they, at the moment they aren't communicating, fail to see treat the marriage as a team.

[jchri66]

03:55 PM on 04/14/2011

Give me a break.... How about: Uncommitting woman knew she was going to get divorced after spending hours a day looking at other peoples glory pictures on Facebook and got depressed because her life seems to be the ooooooonly one that is not perfect. Because you know ..... Facebook profiles reflect reality...

[Jeffrey A Beard]

06:21 AM on 04/12/2011

Shakespeare left Anne their second best bed.

[Susan Shaffer]

05:25 PM on 04/12/2011

ah yes, thanks for reminding me

[OhManOhMan]

12:03 AM on 04/12/2011

Females,

if you want to keep your husband, then you need to perform orally on a weekly basis.