Aug. 9, 2023
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The Good & The Ugly Of A Joint Custody Summer

“For two weeks every summer, I get uninterrupted time with my kids. But that also means that my ex gets two weeks of uninterrupted time with them, meaning once a summer I’m away from them for 14 sleeps total,” Meg Raby writes today. “No one, it seems, prepared me for this when I was getting divorced.”

Now she’s in the middle of that annual stretch, and she’s decided: “I both love and hate this time.” And she’s explaining why at the link. Give it a read.

Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor

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“Like money, leisure time, and silence, sex is something that seems to become more scarce the more kids you have. But, as it turns out, that’s not the case for everyone,” writes Elizabeth Narins. She recently talked to Kalecia Simmons, a life coach and the mother of a 1-, 3-, 4-, 8-, 10-, 11-, 15-, and 16- year-old. “As a parent of just two young pipsqueaks, I have lots of questions — like how she found time to make babies three through eight. So, I asked.” And she got some great answers! Check it out.

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