"I know that parents usually write to you about their problems with us, their teenagers. Well, I'd like to turn this problem upside down from the perspective of a 17-year-old teen daughter..."
After my last Huffington Post piece, "Black, Gay, and Suspicious?" I received several humbling requests from people who wanted to read a follow-up elaborating more on the subject of my internalized racism and the way it had potentially shaped my dating choices.
Separation meant that many of my life plans became redundant. I felt I had to start from scratch in many ways
The problem is that marriage forces love into a singular, finite, unforgiving, inflexible model that allows no room for any other kind. There is one expectation imposing what you can feel and what you can't. Period. In some ways it prevents us from being human.
As I pulled out my intricate "catchall" filing system (read: one large pile), I revived the tumult and triumph of 2011, one crumpled piece of paper at a time.
It's hard for a child to perceive his parents accurately under any circumstances and harder, still, when they're married.
Women respect men who live in integrity, and the few who don't likely aren't women most men want for a long-term relationship. What's the downside of telling your emotional truth? If a woman dumps a guy because she isn't interested in his honesty, was she his best choice?
In the spirit of the "damned if you do/damned if you don't" memoir, I am determined to find my inner Tiger Mom/Diet Mom and expose her to the world.
This question originally appeared on Quora. By Chelsea Henry Speaking as someone in their early 20s, I find this to be...
We all say things we don't mean and we all offend others unintentionally. The best you can do is to try to minimize these occurrences.
If I understand my feminist friends correctly, choice is the primary right that the women's movement worked so hard to gain.
The true nature of stress is that it starts within each of us. And since it does, we can do something about it. Choose to start taking back control of your life right now. Make reflexology a part of your action plan.
I'm married. That's the first time I've typed those words. It's been a long time coming, and it's a very good thing. I didn't always know that it would be.
When I was a young, naïve thing, my Dad used to tell me: "boys don't want to be your friend." He then left the rest to my imagination.
For some busy students, it is more than that. These students don't want to waste their time dating somebody that they don't have anything in common with. I can't say that I blame them; why play on broken strings?
I recently opened an email account for my mom and taught her how to compose messages to my sisters and I so we could stay in touch while she is traveling. The passion with which she wrote shocked me.
