Real Life Stories

Allison McDonald Ace shares her heartbreak over the baby girl she loved and lost.

Anne Thériault: In a world that seemed as if it was increasingly trying to convince me that women needed men, Guiding was the first place where I realized we could take care of ourselves just fine.

It took a blunt conversation with my therapist, then four more years of denial, before I started telling everyone — even my mother — that I was non-monogamous.

After I became a dad, my social life atrophied, practically overnight. I knew being a parent would change things, but I’m still grappling with loneliness.

'I’ve struggled to believe in a higher power, but I could get behind a philosophy of Judaism that celebrates the strength in all of us.'