Tag: therapy

  • When Fiction Isn’t Fiction (and You’re Still the Villain Anyway)

    Some men don’t write novels. They write cover stories. There’s a particular kind of audacity it takes to turn your failed marriage into fiction — to pour your truth onto the page, scrub it of names, and call it art. My sister’s ex-husband has decided he’s a novelist now. His “fictional” story centers on a…

  • Therapy: Back on the couch (my couch that is)

    Going Back, back to Therapy, therapy. So, I went back to therapy. Not because I had a major breakdown (though, let’s be real, I’ve been this close a few times), but because I finally admitted to myself that I can’t do this whole “be everything to everyone and be me in the mix of it…