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Anonymous 2026/10/05 My sister went to prison in 2019 and my wife and I took her two kids, and six years later I want to write the part that isn't inspiring. The kids were four and seven. They're ten and thirteen now. We had one of our own, who was six. My sister got sixty-two mon…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I realized during therapy that I don’t actually like my mother, and that realization has made me feel worse than almost anything else I’ve uncovered. I love her. If she were sick I’d be there immediately. If she needed money I’d help. I call her, visit, make s…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I let everyone at work think I grew up somewhere I didn't, and I've been doing it for eleven years. I'm from a town in eastern Kentucky of about twelve hundred people. My father worked at a mine until 2004 and then didn't work. We were on assistance for a stre…

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Anonymous 2026/10/10 I was a gestational surrogate in 2019 and I want to write the part that isn't in the agency brochure or in the people-are-horrified comments. I'm thirty-four. Married, three kids of my own — that's a requirement, by the way, agencies generally want you to have…

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Anonymous 2026/10/01 I resent my sister for having an easier life and I have never said that to a single human being. On paper nothing was taken from me. We grew up in the same house with the same parents. But I was the oldest and she was the one with the asthma, and from the time…

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Anonymous 2026/09/24 I have not driven on a highway in four years and I have built an entire life around hiding it. The accident wasn't even that bad. Nobody died. I got rear-ended at about sixty-five and spun across two lanes and ended up facing traffic on the shoulder, and for m…

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Anonymous 2026/10/04 I keep a spreadsheet of every lie I have told my wife. There are forty-one rows. Not one of them is about another woman and that is why I can't show it to her. Forty-six. Married nineteen years. I started the file in 2016 and I know exactly why: I'd told her s…

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Anonymous 2026/10/02 I was told for fourteen years that my periods were normal and in March I had a surgeon tell me my insides were fused together, and I want to write down the fourteen years. Thirty-six. Diagnosed with endometriosis in March of this year, stage four, by laparosco…

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Anonymous 2026/10/07 I want to ask something practical, because I've been going in circles for a year and the internet is useless on this. How do you actually go no-contact with a parent who isn't a monster? My father is not abusive. I need to say that first because every resource…

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Anonymous 2026/10/01 I've been in this country for twenty-two years without papers and my kids think I'm just quiet. I came in 2003. I was twenty-six. I'm fifty-one now. I'm not going to say from where or where I live. Twenty-two years. I have a daughter who is nineteen and a son …

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Anonymous 2026/09/30 My wife has MS, I'm forty-four, and I think about leaving roughly twice a week. Diagnosed in 2016. It's the progressive kind. In 2016 she walked. In 2020 she used a cane on bad days. She's been in a wheelchair since early 2023. I want to lay out the day, becau…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 My biggest fear isn’t dying, it’s becoming dependent on my children when I’m old. I watched my grandmother spend the last years of her life needing help with everything and it changed how I think about aging. My mother gave up weekends, vacations, sleep and a …

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Anonymous 2026/09/28 I found out my best friend of nineteen years told my husband about my abortion, and I don't know who I'm more angry at, and I've been sitting with that for two weeks. Context: it was before I met him. I was twenty-three. I have never told him, not because I'm …

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 My daughter came home from an active shooter drill in third grade and asked me a question I answered badly. She's nine. The drill was in October. The school sent a letter beforehand — they always do, and I always skim it, because by now it's as routine as the …

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 Does anybody else feel absolutely nothing when a coworker tells you their parent died? I'm not a cold person in other ways. I cry at commercials. I've cried at my dog's vet appointments. But someone at work loses their mother and I hear myself say the correct …

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Anonymous 2026/09/24 I never told my father I forgave him. He died thinking I was still angry. I was not angry for years before that, I just did not know how to start the sentence, and I kept telling myself there was time. There was not.

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Anonymous 2026/09/17 I've been taking my mother's leftover pain medication for about fourteen months. She had a hip replacement in 2024 and they sent her home with more than she needed, which is apparently still happening. When she was done I was supposed to take them to the drop …

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Anonymous 2026/10/05 I like to make myself appear sad and depressed, just so that I get some type of recognition. I haven't experienced anything too serious in terms of trauma, other than unconsensual groping, and being resented by my family because of something I never did. Maybe…

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