PinnedInAge of EmpathybyM.A.Cmarik·Dec 21, 2023The Last Night I Slept With My HusbandSleeping side-by-side had become mundane, until it felt momentousA response icon105A response icon105
PinnedInSweary MediabyM.A.Cmarik·Jul 17, 2025My Kids Think I Live in a HotelHow a bird-nesting divorce taught me to divide myself in halfA response icon31A response icon31
PinnedM.A.Cmarik·Aug 11, 20227 Men I Made Out With When I Opened My MarriageDating apps were like a drug for me. Until they weren’t.A response icon44A response icon44
M.A.Cmarik·Sep 27Why I Still Can’t Give Up on MediumWriting online was never really about anyone elseA response icon1A response icon1
InHeart AffairsbyM.A.Cmarik·Jul 2Rediscovering Intimacy: Life on the Other Side of a Sexless MarriageI learned to trust that this time would be different.
InThe MemoiristbyM.A.Cmarik·Jun 29Why Childbirth Was the Easy PartOn struggling, suffering, and the pain no needle can touchA response icon3A response icon3
InThe Narrative ArcbyM.A.Cmarik·Jun 24When Life Feels Uncertain, I Start Making Tiny ThingsNow I’ve learned to embrace itA response icon6A response icon6
InAge of EmpathybyM.A.Cmarik·Jan 8I Tried To Calm My Mom Rage With Weed Gummies — I Fell Asleep InsteadFeals Gummies promised me a calm and collected evening, but I spent it on the floorA response icon2A response icon2
InThe Narrative ArcbyM.A.Cmarik·Jan 3What I Wish I Could Say When You Ask How My Year WasThis was the year when the grief caught up with meA response icon4A response icon4
M.A.Cmarik·Jul 9, 2025On Creative Surges and Finding Your Voice AgainI wrote my first essay on Medium three years ago this August.A response icon4A response icon4