Miranda Kate

Tag: marriage

  • Dear divorce

    Dear divorce, Thanks to you, I learned nothing on earth lasts as long as it should. Dear divorce, You spread the heinous lie that ‘happiness’ is on the other side of leaving, that it’s the only answer You convinced them that ‘children are resilient;’ after all, we ‘want you to be happy.’ Dear divorce, You…

  • I’m not ready for marriage, but I’m doing it anyway – a man’s perspective.

    Last week I proposed to my girlfriend and, amazingly enough, she said yes. If you knew me, you would know that is nothing short of a miracle. As I began to share the news with family and friends, a trend developed among my male cohorts. Their response took some form or another of the sentence,…

  • Phil Dunphy & what we actually want from men

    If you’ve ever seen Modern Family you probably know and love Phil Dunphy. He is the sweet, hilarious, goofy, loving father and husband in the Dunphy family with some pretty amusing lines. As an example, here are a few of his ‘Phil-osopohies’ And: Or my favorite favorite: Phil is so endearing, one of the qualities…

  • Dear Fathers: What I wish my dad had known before he left

    Until recently I used to always roll my eyes when I heard the term ‘daddy issues.’ To me it was just an excuse girls used to wear dresses that are too short and sleep with men they knew didn’t care about them. After all, my dad moved out after my parents got divorced and I…

  • What I wish I had known about my parents’ divorce

    I think my generation has become very guarded and as I’ve gotten older I’m starting to understand why. From 1960 to 1980, after the no-fault divorce bill was passed (saying that you could get a divorce without proving spousal wrongdoing), the divorce rate more than doubled. A lot of us millennials and some from those in…

  • If I could write a love song: My response to Maren Morris

    When I was seven or eight, I had an altercation with my BFF (shout out to Maria in NYC!) and decided to write a song to her explaining how I felt. It didn’t end well. Unlike Mozart or Lil Romeo I was not a young musical genius and so my music writing efforts didn’t result…

  • Monday 5: Togetherness & other things I’m excited about this week

    Baby breath flowers I bought these for the first time yesterday and was blown away at how much I loved how they looked. They remind me of flowers you would pick on a field and add such a simple elegance to any room. Fresh flowers are one of those simple pleasures that can make a…

  • Why ‘I do’ is bigger than you

    Did you ever wonder what happened to Cinderella’s stepsisters after she married the prince and left to live happily ever after in the castle? Yeah me either. Love stories tend to focus only on the people inside them. Which makes sense…it’s a love story, not The Proud Family. However, to say that relationships don’t affect…

  • Monday 5: Teamwork & other things to be excited about this week

    This weekend was a blast. Crazy, poop-filled, lots of screaming…and really fun. Friday evening Nicholas and I biked through old Mount Pleasant (one of my favorite areas of Charleston) and then walked the Ravenel Bridge. I had never been there at night and it was cool to see the water and the city all lit…

  • Career isn’t everything & other takeaways from ‘La La Land’

    As I mentioned in this week’s Monday 5, over the weekend I finally had the opportunity to go see ‘La La Land.’ The music and style (basically her whole wardrobe is #goals) in the film were two of favorite parts, I also enjoyed the cinematography and how different it was from what we typically see today. The story…