The First Post 2.5 Years Later

So if you’ve found your way back to this first page of Adrants, you are sure to be greatly displeased with the content as it meandered for about a year before getting a voice. It’s all here in it’s messy nakedness for posterity sake. Enjoy or skip ahead a year or two.

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Nobody talks about the women who are sixty-five and childless not by choice but by circumstance — not because the moment never came but because it came at the wrong time with the wrong person three separate times and now the silence in their house isn’t peaceful, it’s the sound of a question that answered itself while they were still deciding

Nobody talks about the women who are sixty-five and childless not by choice but by circumstance — not because the moment never came but because it came at the wrong time with the wrong person three separate times and now the silence in their house isn’t peaceful, it’s the sound of a question that answered itself while they were still deciding

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Research suggests boomers who grew up in working-class homes during the 1950s and 60s developed these 8 toughness traits that most people today couldn’t survive with — and it explains why they can’t understand why younger generations ‘give up so easily’

Research suggests boomers who grew up in working-class homes during the 1950s and 60s developed these 8 toughness traits that most people today couldn’t survive with — and it explains why they can’t understand why younger generations ‘give up so easily’

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Adults who were praised exclusively for being ‘good’ as children often become people who have no idea how to want things for themselves because desire was never part of the identity they were rewarded for

Adults who were praised exclusively for being ‘good’ as children often become people who have no idea how to want things for themselves because desire was never part of the identity they were rewarded for

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Psychology says people who won’t travel because they can’t leave their dog, or who turn down social invitations to stay home with their pet, aren’t isolated — they’re prioritizing the one relationship in their life that never makes them feel like a burden

Psychology says people who won’t travel because they can’t leave their dog, or who turn down social invitations to stay home with their pet, aren’t isolated — they’re prioritizing the one relationship in their life that never makes them feel like a burden

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I’m 65 and my father died in 1996 without ever once telling me what scared him and I’ve spent twenty-nine years collecting the questions I would have asked if I’d known men from his generation needed permission to be something other than strong

I’m 65 and my father died in 1996 without ever once telling me what scared him and I’ve spent twenty-nine years collecting the questions I would have asked if I’d known men from his generation needed permission to be something other than strong

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There’s a specific kind of loneliness that belongs to people who never had children. It doesn’t arrive as sadness. It arrives as irrelevance, the growing suspicion that the future is a conversation happening in another room that you were never invited into.

There’s a specific kind of loneliness that belongs to people who never had children. It doesn’t arrive as sadness. It arrives as irrelevance, the growing suspicion that the future is a conversation happening in another room that you were never invited into.

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