ChickSpeak

I have to admit that, for once, I’m one lucky chick for not having had the infamous “What are we?” talk. Granted, I’ve avoided it at all costs and fail to let my relationships get to this point but I’ve seen some of my girls go through it and know how difficult it can be.
I […]

Oh, how time flies. Summer is finally winding down, goodbyes are being given, boxes packed, and cars loaded. It’s that time again - back to school. The dreaded yet highly anticipated return is looming in the air. You’re excited to see old friends or meet new ones but the idea of school work is putting […]

Last Sunday the preacher at church was telling the story of how he met his wife. In his background dialogue he mentioned that her father had been in the military and having grown up with a frequently absent Daddy, wanted to make it clear to him that absence does not make her heart grow fonder […]

Your girls. They’re your best friends and soul mates through it all. Your guy. He’s your best friend and soul mate for what you hope will be eternity. With such similar descriptions, one may wonder how it’s possible that they exist in the same world without collision.
Unfortunately, they do. They intersect at a crossroads where […]

In every relationship, there is a certain set of first milestones: the first meeting, the first text, the first date. And then there’s the one that’s usually the most nerve-racking: the first kiss. While most Chicks have a sense of kissing know-how (maybe it was all those teenage years of sneaking peeks of mom’s Cosmopolitan […]

Consider every person that ever lived. Throughout all of history there have been billions of people who have inhabited the earth. Now consider each day each person ever lived. We do not know precisely how long we humans have roamed the earth, but we can easily assume that at the very least, one person a […]

It’s a beautiful thought to think that once you are married the arguments and fights that followed you during your relationship would just disappear.
Granted the majority of big issues such as kids, to have them or not and how many, how to handle money, who will mow the lawn (just kidding…sort of) should have been […]

You meet a boy. You fall in love. You live happily ever after. Right? Unfortunately, that is not always the case, as many of us know, sometimes prince charming goes sour and that happily ever after quickly turns into a solo act with a lot of leftover baggage.
After a breakup, especially from a lengthy relationship, […]

I’ve been in love once before. Considering my dating track record and my past of non-existent boyfriends, you’re probably wondering how that’s even possible. In fact, I asked myself the same question.
Taking into account that he was my friends-with-benefits to begin with, I never imagined I could develop feelings for him. But our relationship extended […]

You all know by now that Will is in law school and I am the primary breadwinner in our household.  We more or less live on a single income which can be stressful to even think about.  To any of us who have grown up spoiled and considered our “needs” to be “needing” a new […]