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single parenting

Sometimes we freely spend emotional resources, other times we conserve.

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Photo by Chris Moewes
Soon after my first husband and I separated, in 2003, I bought the book How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen.
It’s kind of funny, when I think about it now. I had read enough of Franzen’s earlier work to know I wasn’t buying a practical, how-to guide that would actually give me [...]

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