Tag: choosing change

• Staying Together “For the Kids” Might Be Quietly Teaching Them the Wrong Thing

  Staying in an unhappy marriage for the children feels noble. But what are they really learning about love by watching? An honest look from Illicit Encounters. It’s the line that ends a thousand late-night conversations with yourself. Things aren’t right. They haven’t been right for years. But the children are eight and eleven, and you’d…

• She Hadn’t Made a Playlist for Anyone Since She Was Nineteen

  She thought she’d stopped being the kind of woman who falls for someone. Then she found herself making a playlist at midnight, and everything shifted. The first song went on the list at quarter to midnight, while the house was asleep and the dishwasher was doing its long, sighing final cycle downstairs. Claire from Solihull…

• Rekindling the Spark: Can You Get It Back?

  The question arrives in different forms, but the core is always the same: “Can we get back what we lost?” Sometimes it comes from IE members considering whether to leave their marriages and try again with someone new. Sometimes it comes from people still hoping to fix what they have. The honest answer is complicated.…