Maria RomanMental Illness is a LiabilityOver the past several years, we’ve been inundated with well-meaning PSAs and advice to “check on your friends.” The pandemic was (is?)…·2 min read·Apr 22, 2022----
Maria RomanLosing a Child: The Grief of Parental AlienationMy daughter’s father and I split when she was about 18 months old. She’d always been a mama’s girl; for the first year she would only sleep…·4 min read·Apr 20, 2022----
Maria RomanI Was Dumped by my Quarantine Partner, and it’s a Special Kind of HellIn early August, my boyfriend of a year and I had a fight (for the life of me I can’t remember why, but I feel like it was pretty minor)…·4 min read·Oct 29, 2020----
Maria RomanMastering Non-Attachment in DatingThis summer, I thought I’d achieved the impossible: despite being a liberal single mother living in a deeply conservative area, despite…·3 min read·Oct 26, 2020----
Maria RomanWhen Pandemic Isolation Collides with Election Season in a Red StateToday, I was finalizing weekend plans with a friend I’ve known since middle school (we’re still in the midst of a pandemic so said plans…·3 min read·Oct 24, 2020----
Maria RomanWe Are Not Doing OK: Check on Your Single FriendsWhere I live, the temperatures are already beginning to drop below freezing. The snow-capped mountains remind me that life hasn’t been…·3 min read·Oct 22, 2020----