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It’s Complicated

  1. love and war
    I Will Never Share a Bank Account With My HusbandI’ll give up my name, but never my financial independence.
    By Christina Wyman
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    Why Did Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Both Win Money in Their Defamation Trial?A million here, a million there.
    By Victoria Bekiempis
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    Texting Is the Only Way My Husband and I Can Argue Without Destroying Each OtherBless those three little dots.
    By Kate Willsky
  4. it was complicated
    I Got High and Made Croissants Like Meryl StreepCan a layperson make fancy baked goods high? Or is this a skill bestowed exclusively upon Meryl Streep in Nancy Meyers’s It’s Complicated?
    By Rachel Handler
  5. nmcu
    A Chaotic Taxonomy of the Nancy Meyers Cinematic UniverseOver four-plus decades, the filmmaker has created a very specific visual language. Here is the key.
    By Rachel Handler
  6. nancy meyers week
    Nancy Meyers Searches for Her Own ComfortFor decades, she’s been the foremost purveyor of onscreen hygge. Now she’s ready to retire it all.
    By Rachel Handler
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    I Never Enjoyed Sex Until I Took It Less SeriouslyWhen my wife and I had a baby, all my planning fell apart — and I finally learned to be spontaneous.
    By Jay Deitcher
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    I Wish I’d Realized How Bad My Ex’s Drinking WasWhen we broke up, I thought it would be his rock bottom. I was wrong.
    By Steven Baker
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    My Husband Cheated When I Was 7 Months PregnantBefore his infidelity ended our marriage during my third trimester, my husband and I shared a love of food.
    By Lauren Bans
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    I Wanted to Feel Athletic and Hot, So I Dated an Awful JockWe didn’t have anything in common but sex.
    By Shayna Goodman
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    I Got Cheated On, So I Moved Away and Found a ReboundIt didn’t last, but that’s what was perfect about it.
    By Kate Devine
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    My Husband Left Me on the Side of the RoadIt was the first time we’d laughed in months.
    By Addie Morfoot
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    My Husband’s Pop Star Ex Looks Just Like MeHaving a doppelganger was weird at first, but then she became one of my closest friends.
    By Leonora Epstein
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    I Traveled 4,000 Miles to Break Up With My Boyfriend in PersonI was afraid seeing each other again would make breaking up more painful, but it actually made it easier.
    By Suzannah Weiss
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    Insecurity Drove Me Into a RelationshipI was desperate to break my cycle of three-month flings.
    By Shayna Goodman
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    My Husband Is a Better Person Than I AmHe remembers birthdays, he chats up the elderly, he bakes. What does he see in me?
    By Hannah Anderson
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    We Had a Beautiful, If Imaginary, RelationshipThe best relationships happen in daydreams.
    By Tracy Strauss
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    The Terrible Relationship That Inspired My NovelFor a long time, I was too embarrassed to admit it.
    By Carola Lovering
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    Getting Engaged Felt Like a Death PactThis would either end in death or litigation, with dying as the best case scenario.
    By Anna Held
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    Watching My Parents Bicker Taught Me How to LoveIf marriage is a bargain, a version of Let’s Make a Deal, my parents were grand-prize winners.
    By Barbara Josselsohn
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    What It’s Like to Be 10 Years Older Than Your HusbandOver the years, our age gap has started to feel more like a gorge.
    By Cathy Alter
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    I Can Only Sleep When I’m AloneEven when I’m newly in love.
    By Sarah A. Bregel
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    I’ve Been in 4 Relationships With the Same PersonBut we’ve never broken up.
    By Chelsea Gray
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    How to Date in Your 70sI no longer need to prove myself lovable. I am and I know it.
    By Jane Pollak
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    My Secret to Marital Bliss Is Refusing to Share My MoneyIf we don’t share it, we can’t argue about it.
    By Nell Beram
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    I Hate Getting Gifts Because I Hate Being MisunderstoodThey’re material reminders that I’m not always perceived the way I want to be.
    By Sophia Ortega
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    How to Love Someone When You’re a HypochondriacTrying, and not always succeeding, to break out of patterns set in childhood.
    By Ashley Abramson
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    It’s Complicated: 23andMe Informed Me My Husband and I Are RelatedWas our newfound connection romantic … or creepy?
    By Liane Kupferberg Carter
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    It’s Complicated: How to Miss Someone Who Isn’t Really GoneIt feels like a loss, but it isn’t as clear-cut as that.
    By Rainesford Stauffer
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    Watching the Netflix Version of the Life I Almost HadAt times, Private Life felt like a scripted version of my actual private life.
    By Susan Shapiro
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    It’s Complicated: I Hate Relationships and I Love My BoyfriendI resisted monogamy because I thought I’d be bored. I am. It’s great.
    By Sophia Benoit
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    It’s Complicated: Lunch With My First Love, 20 Years LaterI imagined this meeting so many times.
    By Charlotte Flynn
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    How to Lose Your Platonic Soul MateHow do you set boundaries for a relationship you can’t even define?
    By Sarah Kasbeer
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    It’s Complicated: The Best Place to Flirt Is Instagram DMIt’s like I’m catfishing myself.
    By Maria Del Russo
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    It’s Complicated: Love Couldn’t Save Me From LonelinessI was surprised by how many people thought it would.
    By Maggie Puniewska
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    It’s Complicated: I Had My First Date at 28On learning how to start from scratch.
    By Clara Artschwager
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    It’s Complicated: Nothing Sounds Worse Than Dating When You’re GrievingI lost my ability to feel attraction. I lost my ability to feel anything.
    By Marjorie Brimley
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    It’s Complicated: Knowing I’m Bipolar Made Me Better at DatingTreating my mental illness helped me feel stable enough on my own.
    By Dana Hamilton
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    It’s Complicated: How My Ex-Husband Accidentally Became My Good FriendWhat started as something I did for our kids turned into something I did for myself.
    By Jaimie Seaton
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    It’s Complicated: I Got Married Before I Was ReadyMaybe commitment could be a path toward the person I wanted to be, not a reward for becoming her.
    By Ashley Abramson
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    It’s Complicated: Spare Me the Grand Romantic GestureSometimes the small and the ordinary carry more meaning.
    By Maris Kreizman
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    It’s Complicated: The Embarrassing Private Languages of CouplesWhy can’t we stop saying awful things like “diggle dog”?
    By Suzannah Weiss
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    It’s Complicated: Adventures in Dating While ChristianI didn’t mean to make my faith an ultimatum. Not at first, anyway.
    By Addie Stuber
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    It’s Complicated: Dating Without Texting Is the Absolute BestIt’s exhausting. So why do it at all?
    By Clara Artschwager
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    It’s Complicated: Growing Up in a Family Like Mine Made Me Terrified of ConflictI shut down even at necessary confrontation.
    By Nora Whelan
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    It’s Complicated: The Wedding Forum That Helped Me Leave My Abusive ExI couldn’t talk to people who knew me. So I tried people who didn’t.
    By Bridey Heing
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    It’s Complicated: Surviving the Embarrassments of Dating in a Foreign LanguageNot easy for a perfectionist who hates being wrong.
    By Radhika Sanghani
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    It’s Complicated: My Marriage Was Open, But I Couldn’t Get a DateSo I lied.
    By Lira Kellerman
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    It’s Complicated: The Time I Scheduled a Heartbreak 3 Months in AdvanceI knew he was moving. We stayed together anyway.
    By Kathleen Wong
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    I Live Like I’m a Plus-One to My Own LifeThe silent-meditation retreat that gave my marriage a makeover.
    By Maria Teresa Hart
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