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I came across a column by an Australian woman named Monica. The woman is 53 years old, and she did what each of us has dreamed of at least once in moments of deep everyday despair, Ukr.Media reports. How many…

The habit of reading mom forums doesn't leave me. The plot I came across this morning began as a classic drama about violated boundaries, informs Ukr.Media. The mother of an 11-year-old boy, through long negotiations and manipulations, has taught her…

For almost an hour now, I've been scrolling through a thread on a women's forum, where the participants are tearing apart the topic with the scale of experienced gladiators: “From mistress to wife. Ask. I'll answer honestly,” informs Ukr.Media. The…

We are used to thinking that maternal instinct is something like a basic package that is necessarily turned on along with two lines on the test, Ukr.Media informs. Here is a woman who found herself in that mythical 0.1% contraceptive…

When you're over forty, the Internet ceases to be a place to search for answers and turns into an endless anthropological exhibition, Ukr.Media reports. Late one night, when I didn't feel like sleeping and didn't have the energy to work,…

Instead of proofreading the materials, I got stuck in TikTok again. The feed threw up a video of a girl. She is walking along some rocky mountain path, crying, the wind smearing tears across her face. The text on the…

The girl is fifty (yes, a girl, let's not use ageism), she has three adult children, and the younger twins will soon be eighteen. And she is six days late. Instead of going to the pharmacy, buying a test and…

Every time I come across an old American film, my gaze inevitably catches the figure of the sheriff. Usually he is a life-weary, slightly melancholic man with a mustache. We are used to perceiving him as some kind of overseas…

I'm reading another thread, a woman is dissecting her four-hour date with such maniacal detail, as if it were a black box from a plane that crashed somewhere over the Atlantic. It seems, if she were allowed to, she would…

Sometimes I like to open women's forums, not to spy on any secrets or assert myself, but simply because life is pulsating there. There is no diplomacy there. They immediately sound the alarm there, and at the same time they…