“I felt I was looking at something remarkable: a real-time record of the encounter between a patient and a therapist. It was an encounter that started off well before veering profoundly off course.”
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Bread and Honey
Sometimes, marriage is about learning how to braid the bitter with the sweet.
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Living With My Ex
“In the space of two weeks, my partner came out as gay and told me she was pregnant. What could have been the end of our family turned into a new beginning.”
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The Unabomber’s Brother Turned Him In. Then Spent 27 Years Trying to Win Him Back.
“Ted Kaczynski, whose anti-tech rants are finding a new generation of readers, shunned the brother who called the F.B.I. in an effort to halt his campaign of violence.”
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Love, Lust, Loneliness: A Valentine’s Day Reading List
Essays, reading lists, and editors’ picks on relationships, breakups, and many different kinds of love.
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In Every Nelson He Visits, Jeff Truesdell Finds the Man He Loved
“How do you live with the loss of a loved one? For Truesdell, it means visiting every Nelson in North America.”
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Where Miracles Exist for the Weekend
An unlikely journey of marriage, faith, and doubt in the Jaliscan highlands.
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Predator or Prey
“I still want to feel each meal, each touch, each body I absorb into mine.”
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We’re So Back
“The ‘get-your-ex-back’ industry is booming. It really shouldn’t be.”