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She was dusting in the living room when Heather heard a loud crash followed by a string of curses coming from the bathroom. With the certainty gleaned from years of being a care provider, she knew that her husband Max had fallen in the shower. Panic ate at her insides...

I’ve always been a control freak. Ever since I was a kid, I had to be in charge. When my brother, sisters, and I played “school,” I was the teacher. If we put on an impromptu play for our parents and the neighbors we managed to drag in, I was the director. When I grew...

The holidays are nothing if not complex. As the season begins, we have visions of apple cider-wafted family gatherings where everyone gets along, wandering through a holiday market shopping for the perfect gift, or spending a lazy afternoon sipping hot cocoa before a...

Growing up disabled and queer, I spent my entire life feeling like I was on the outside looking in. Whether it was thinking I didn’t fit in or being sure that everybody but me had a date on Saturday night, otherness stuck to me like glue, and it felt as if I’d never...

“I didn’t know I was being gaslit until years after it happened,” Heath told his therapist. “When I used to tell my husband that something he said hurt me, he’d say that it was “just a joke” and that I was “being too sensitive.”  “And how did you feel when he said...

“I feel so guilty whenever I think about the days just before my husband died,” Susan said, wiping away a tear with the tissue her therapist handed her.   “What do you feel guilty about?”  “We had a big fight. He wanted to go to Disney World for two weeks, and I said...