Love, dating and the truth, between us girls.
Pull up a chair. Melanin Mermaid (melaninmermaid.com) is for you: a grown Black woman, 40 and up, who has lived some life and loved some people, and still has questions she only asks her closest girlfriends.
Maybe you are dating again after a divorce, or for the first time in twenty years. Maybe you are married and tired, or happy and still learning. Maybe you are single on purpose and done explaining it. Whatever chair you are sitting in, we are not here to lecture you. We are here to talk to you the way you talk to yourself on a good day, and the way your most trusted friend talks to you when the door is closed.
What we talk about
- Dating Again: the apps, the first dates, the grown-man red flags, and how to tell butterflies from warning signs.
- Relationships: loving somebody without losing yourself in the process.
- Marriage: the long seasons, the hard years and what keeps two people at the table.
- Self-Worth: standards, boundaries and the voice in your own head.
- Real Talk: the questions women ask each other when nobody else is listening.
Who is talking
Our writers are women in their forties, fifties and sixties who have been married, divorced, widowed, single and starting over. They write from their own lives and from the conversations women have with each other. You can meet each of them on her author page.
Read How We Write to see what you can expect from us, and our Disclaimer for what our advice is, and is not.
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