Identity Loss: In the Age of Marriage and Kids

Getting married and having kids doesn’t mean you have to give up your personal identity

M. Howard

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I recently read several articles on Medium where women writers were speculating about two things: the life they “could have had” in their 20s and 30s if they hadn’t been child-rearing and married and the loss of identity once their children…

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M. Howard

Mother. Wife. Friend. Lover. Self. All of them at once and sometimes none at all. I write to explore relationships and to help make sense of the world.