“My husband has been coaching youth sports since my son turned 4,” says an anonymous writer today. “What started as glorified babysitting with silly camp-like games when the kids were toddlers has morphed into a highly competitive game with sideline parenting drama 10 years later.” And guess what? She’s done, and so is he: “While the time commitment, practice planning, and kid dynamics can make this volunteer position stressful, the real breaking point is that I simply no longer have the mental bandwidth for the youth sport parent bullsh*t. And so I am finally making him hang up his whistle for good.”

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— Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor

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Yes, here I am with yet another unpleasant and frustrating menopause symptom. It gives me no pleasure delivering this information! Deirdre Kaye writes: “Let's just start by saying that your body is beautiful and amazing and capable of super f*cking cool and hard things. It should be worshipped. But also... it's OK if, even though you love yourself and are generally happy with what you see when you look in the mirror, it's not always easy to appreciate every little thing about your body.” So let’s talk about it.