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I quit my tech job due to burnout and left London. Moving to Lisbon cured my loneliness and restored my work-life balance.
A millennial co-founder moved to Lisbon after he burned out and felt lonely. He's happier, and heal…
Ella Hopkins
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Millennials and Gen Zers want human connection, so they're choosing travel tours with strangers to cure their loneliness
More young people are booking small group vacations to find face-to-face camaraderie.
Lauren Edmonds
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I wanted to erase my lonely childhood by having lots of kids. After raising 2 sons in a pandemic, I'm done.
The author says that having two kids in the past two years has pushed her out of the workforce and …
Laura Donovan
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I was held at gunpoint when I was 12. I still haven't recovered from the trauma almost three decades later.
The author was held at gunpoint during a robbery. As a mom, she worries about her kids as she sees …
Conz Preti
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My 3 birth experiences were wildly different and not what I'd wanted. My children taught me they are in control, not me.
The author had three very different births, and while none was what she had dreamed of, she learned…
Sarah Martinez Shaw
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My son has autism spectrum disorder. As mask mandates go away, his diagnosis is being used against us.
The author says teachers used her son's autism-spectrum-disorder diagnosis as a reason to stop wear…
Wolf Terry
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My high-risk pregnancy almost destroyed my marriage
The author shares how, after being put on bed rest, her husband went from lover to caregiver, and h…
Aileen Weintraub
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I was hit by a car while typing emails on my phone. It made me see my relationship with work had to change.
"I couldn't stop thinking: What if I'd had my kids with me? Underneath my anger I felt powerless an…
Melissa Petro
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I came out as a trans woman to my wife and children. We're now closer than ever before.
The author grew up with no positive narratives of transgender people. She wants to share her happy …
Andrea Breanna
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6 things I wish I knew about C-sections before having one
The author shares how she was unprepared for her C-section with her first child, and how what she l…
Conz Preti
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I'm a founder who needed to learn how to let my guard down. Here's why I swapped my life coach for a therapist.
Sanctus founder James Routledge had an executive coach - but when he went to a therapist, he found …
James Routledge
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I told the world my child came out as trans. The social-media backlash scared me, but it was still worth it.
The author shares how after the essay about their child coming out as trans went viral, they receiv…
Anonymous
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The Tucker Carlson origin story
Tucker Carlson's journey from prep school provocateur to Fox News flamethrower, according to his fr…
Aaron Short
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I went on Royal Caribbean's 7-day cruise to the Bahamas. I felt completely safe, but my heart broke seeing how hurt the tourism industry is.
"A server tripped and spilled some wine in the restaurant and started crying. You can tell they're …
Jamie Killin
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I got diagnosed with autism at 28 years old, and the difficult process changed my life for the better
After years of being misdiagnosed and feeling lost and confused, I learned that I have autism - and…
Rebecca Dingwell
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All I wanted was to live alone. After coronavirus swept through New York City, solitude became my worst enemy
I once dreamed about living alone in Brooklyn. Then the coronavirus hit, and I found myself in mise…
Rebecca Fishbein
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I'm a healthy 24-year-old, and the coronavirus nearly landed me in the hospital. Here's how I should have prepared for isolation differently.
I developed COVID-19 symptoms after reporting from the frontlines of the pandemic. It was the scari…
Sam Raskin
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Rudy Giuliani's daughter talked about her love of threesomes and being polyamorous in a personal essay
Caroline Rose Giuliani wrote a personal essay for Vanity Fair where she described herself as a "uni…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Cultural institutions need to stop the empty gestures and performative activism — it's time to do the real work of anti-racism
Organizations like the Guggenheim and Bon Appétit have run on empty words for too long. As centers …