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The Memoirist

@the-memoirist

articles: 113
total claps: 24,821
top claps: 1,910
avg read: 5.5 min
paywalled: 66
active: 2023-09-25 → 2026-07-17

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✍️ · Writing & Creative · 90 LIT · Literature & Writing · 85 👨‍👩‍👧 · Family & Parenting · 42 💑 · Relationships · 34 📚 · Books & Reading · 19 🧠 · Mental Wellness · 15 PSY · Mental Health & Psychiatry · 11 💭 · Philosophy of Spirit · 9

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#memoir ·50 #the-memoirist ·30 #family ·24 #life-lessons ·23 #this-happened-to-me ·19 #relationships ·18 #personal-essay ·15 #nonfiction ·14 #mental-health ·10 #parenting ·9

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SO Sofia K · The Memoirist

The Default Parent

Does not clock out

Jun 20, 2026 · 6 min read · 1,910 claps paywalled #parenting #women #relationships

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BR B.R. Shenoy · The Memoirist

A Piece of My Childhood in Brazil

Looking back on Natal, and what’s changed since we called it home

Jul 08, 2026 · 3 min read · 1,708 claps paywalled #travel #this-happened-to-me #travel-writing

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AB Abbey Wade · The Memoirist

I Am Never Disappointed by Honeysuckle

Bitter paths can lead to sweet endings.

May 06, 2026 · 6 min read · 1,437 claps paywalled #family-estrangement #parenting #mental-health

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KA Kate G · The Memoirist

He Introduced Himself to the Neighbor as My Husband

Everyone says “We.” I’m the only one still wondering what that means.

Jul 02, 2026 · 5 min read · 1,094 claps paywalled #the-memoirist #this-happened-to-me #divorce

He Introduced Himself to the Neighbor as My Husband

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TO Toni Crowe · The Memoirist

“If You Get Hit by a Car, I’ll Kill You” and Other Iconic Sayings by My Mom

She had a way of stopping her kids with one sentence and a look

Jul 11, 2026 · 5 min read · 855 claps paywalled #the-memoirist #parenting #this-happened-to-me

“If You Get Hit by a Car, I’ll Kill You” and Other Iconic Sayings by My Mom

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OS Oscar Rhea · The Memoirist

Kevin Costner Doesn’t Care For Me

The feeling is mutual

May 06, 2026 · 6 min read · 820 claps paywalled #about-me #the-memoirist #kevin-costner

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KI Kim Petersen · The Memoirist

Both of My Husbands Told Me I Wouldn’t Survive Without Them. Here’s What Happened Next

It took two divorces to discover the person I’d been searching for all along

Jul 11, 2026 · 8 min read · 813 claps paywalled #memoir #self #relationships

Both of My Husbands Told Me I Wouldn’t Survive Without Them. Here’s What Happened Next

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TR Tracy Cranford · The Memoirist

Playground of the Imagination

A Dangerous Place to Be

Jun 26, 2026 · 5 min read · 775 claps paywalled #power-of-imagination #bad-kids #imagination

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WA Walter Rhein · The Memoirist

The Drunk, Loser English Teacher Who Hated Me With Every Fiber of His Being

In my school, the only way to learn was to rebel

Jun 08, 2026 · 9 min read · 725 claps paywalled #this-happened-to-me #writing #education

The Drunk, Loser English Teacher Who Hated Me With Every Fiber of His Being

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NO Not Even Wine With Dinner · The Memoirist

Chicken Soup For the Ass-Souls

How I survived growing up in a “self-help” childhood

Jun 14, 2026 · 6 min read · 671 claps paywalled #therapy #self-help #mental-health

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DA David Mokotoff, MD · The Memoirist

How Doctors Deal With Death and Dying

It is highly personal, unique, complicated, and for me, a struggle.

Jul 08, 2026 · 5 min read · 640 claps paywalled #grief #death #family

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JO Joshua Samuel Brown · The Memoirist

Breakfast In Tiananmen

Beijing Vignette (ten years after the massacre)

Jun 06, 2025 · 2 min read · 621 claps paywalled #china #history #tiananmen

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WA Walter Rhein · The Memoirist

My Conservative Rural Teachers Wore Klan Robes and Raped Students

There was never any accountability except for the made up crimes of the innocent

Jun 14, 2026 · 10 min read · 586 claps paywalled #culture #education #this-happened-to-me

My Conservative Rural Teachers Wore Klan Robes and Raped Students

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AP Apeksha Apte · The Memoirist

How Can I Want Something After Losing Everything?

Some losses don’t leave you empty. They leave you wanting only what can never return.

Jul 04, 2026 · 4 min read · 565 claps paywalled #grief #detachment #personal-essay

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MA Mark Tulin · The Memoirist

The Field Mouse Incident

An undergraduate experience that was a matter of life and death

May 28, 2026 · 4 min read · 504 claps paywalled #narrative #nonfiction #the-memoirist

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TO Toni Crowe · The Memoirist

That Time I Left My Honey Behind

He stayed put, but his heart relocated

Jun 02, 2026 · 7 min read · 476 claps paywalled #the-memoirist #this-happened-to-me #marriage

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DA Dana DuBois · The Memoirist

All GenX Dating Is Grief

Compatibility isn’t chemistry. It’s whether your griefs can coexist

Jun 25, 2026 · 11 min read · 473 claps paywalled #grief #relationships #dating

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GR Greyson Ferguson · The Memoirist

I Didn’t Want to Die, But Death Felt Like the Only Answer

Suicide, men’s mental health, and the desire to be heard

Jun 13, 2026 · 10 min read · 453 claps paywalled #suicide #mental-health #mens-mental-health

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KA Kate G · The Memoirist

The Wrong Life Shows on Your Mouth, Not Your Eyes

Your soul stops hiding and forces you to see it starving

Jun 08, 2026 · 6 min read · 446 claps paywalled #mental-health #self-awareness #this-happened-to-me

The Wrong Life Shows on Your Mouth, Not Your Eyes

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WI William Mersey · The Memoirist

The Cycle of Sexual Abuse

Handed down from generation to generation

Apr 26, 2026 · 5 min read · 342 claps paywalled #sexual-abuse #prostitution #the-memoirist

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GR Greyson Ferguson · The Memoirist

I Have No Connection With Family

Some connections you can’t will into existence. It’s either there or it’s not.

Jun 09, 2026 · 5 min read · 312 claps paywalled #family #memoir #children

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WI William Mersey · The Memoirist

The Father Who Never Really Grew Up

Mom called him a case of arrested development and the day I realized she was right

Jul 13, 2026 · 5 min read · 298 claps paywalled #fathers #parenting #aretha-franklin

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ST Stephanie Roberts · The Memoirist

The Little Boy Who Wanted to Talk to Sharks

Sometimes the stories we write for children are really love letters in disguise

Jun 24, 2026 · 6 min read · 291 claps paywalled #the-memoirist #children #grandparenting

The Little Boy Who Wanted to Talk to Sharks

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TR Tracey Lynch- Author, Advocate, Survivor · The Memoirist

She Went Through the Motions

On the Mother’s Day weekend I planned, the mass email that arrived a week later, and the estrangement that began when the narcissistic…

Jul 06, 2026 · 13 min read · 290 claps paywalled #women #family #relationships

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AD Adam Craig · The Memoirist

The Journey to Healing Feels Like Falling of the Edge off a Cliff Without Anyone There to Catch You

Because the hardest part of recovery is realizing nobody can walk through it for you

Jun 06, 2026 · 4 min read · 250 claps paywalled #this-happened-to-me #mental-health #relationships