Vicki Larson
@omgchronicles.bsky.social
Journalist, mom, author of "LATitude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work" & "Not Too Old for That," co-author of “The New I Do.”
African American women experience bothersome menopause symptoms, societal stigma and lack the support needed from their doctors during menopause.
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A survey to understand the experience, perceptions, and stigma around menopause among African American women
This survey (September–October 2022) sought deeper understanding of menopause experiences, perceptions, and unmet needs among African American women.P…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
African American women experience bothersome menopause symptoms, societal stigma and lack the support needed from their doctors during menopause.
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'You're doomed to die alone' is a lazy, fear-based argument that keeps people in bad marriages.
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Doomed to Die Alone
The stories we tell ourselves about being single, and the world's dumbest argument against divorce
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December 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
'You're doomed to die alone' is a lazy, fear-based argument that keeps people in bad marriages.
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As we approach a new year, it seemed like a good time to try something new—a Substack devoted to Live Apart Together relationships. Hope you'll join me there!
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LATitude—Living Happily Apart, Together | Vicki Larson | Substack
A newsletter for people who are interested in living and loving outside conventional models of coupling written by an award-winning journalist and author who wrote the definitive book on Live Apart To...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
As we approach a new year, it seemed like a good time to try something new—a Substack devoted to Live Apart Together relationships. Hope you'll join me there!
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LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
A growing number of Americans are "solo-agers" — they live alone, don't have family to rely on and are much more likely to live in poverty and struggle with their health.
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An 'explosion' of solo-agers are 'flying without a net'
Older Americans who live alone tend to struggle more financially and with their emotional and physical health.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A growing number of Americans are "solo-agers" — they live alone, don't have family to rely on and are much more likely to live in poverty and struggle with their health.
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
Where my gals who love men in kilts at?
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Where my gals who love men in kilts at?
Moms, stop giving your adult kids advice!
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Receiving Advice from Mothers and Depressive Symptoms in Midlife: Exploring the Moderating Roles of Gender and Relationship Quality
AbstractObjectives. Advice has been conceptualized as both a form of support and as a threat to recipients’ feelings of autonomy and competence. However, l
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December 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Moms, stop giving your adult kids advice!
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I approve the results of this study.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I approve the results of this study.
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As women transition into perimenopause and postmenopause, their reproductive priorities change, and they begin to prioritize less masculine features that support long-term relationships.
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The Perception of Women of Different Ages of Men’s Physical attractiveness, Aggression and Social Dominance Based on Male Secondary Sexual Characteristics - Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
Purpose The aim of the study was to determine whether there were any differences in women’s evaluations of facial masculinity, beardedness, body shape and muscularity according to their age and menopa...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As women transition into perimenopause and postmenopause, their reproductive priorities change, and they begin to prioritize less masculine features that support long-term relationships.
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So if a middle-aged woman has health struggles and her husband doesn't, they're more likely to divorce because "men struggle more than women with a partner's declining health"? Got it.
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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective
Building on the Theory of Dyadic Illness Management, this paper addresses the correlates of silver splits—voluntary union dissolutions after age 50—among mixed-gender couples in Europe foc.....
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December 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So if a middle-aged woman has health struggles and her husband doesn't, they're more likely to divorce because "men struggle more than women with a partner's declining health"? Got it.
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More of this nationwide please!
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
More of this nationwide please!
What would you be willing to do to revive a marriage? How about a rumspringa?
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The Case for a Marital Gap Year
There’s a history of women taking a break from their marriage
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December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What would you be willing to do to revive a marriage? How about a rumspringa?
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"Pushed to the brink, any family of any species might behave aggressively to outcompete others to survive."
This Essay by award-winning author and scientist Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell uses compelling fieldwork observations to show that under conditions of scarcity, elephants behave much like humans
In conditions of scarcity, elephants (like humans) don’t play nice | Aeon Essays
Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits, everything changes
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December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Pushed to the brink, any family of any species might behave aggressively to outcompete others to survive."
"Given that we are all, every day, imbibing madness, how do we guard our souls?"
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Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
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December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Given that we are all, every day, imbibing madness, how do we guard our souls?"
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Not every older woman is a grandmother. Stop it!
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December 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Not every older woman is a grandmother. Stop it!
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It was never about criminals.
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ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It was never about criminals.
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Every time somebody (Halle Berry today) gets pissed off at Gavin Newsom for vetoing something, I have learned to find out why he did so.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Every time somebody (Halle Berry today) gets pissed off at Gavin Newsom for vetoing something, I have learned to find out why he did so.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
What if you could have the best of being in a loving committed relationship while also having the best of being single? Is that even possible? Maybe the question is, Why wouldn't it?
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LATitude
A little distance goes a long way in this ultimate guide to living apart together relationships. . . Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker, who mar...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
What if you could have the best of being in a loving committed relationship while also having the best of being single? Is that even possible? Maybe the question is, Why wouldn't it?
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It's OK to disagree, because that obviously happens. Learning how to disagree is the thing.
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Travis Kelce says he and Taylor Swift ‘never’ fight as he receives marriage advice from George Clooney
Travis Kelce opened up on a new episode of “New Heights,” revealing he and fiancée Taylor Swift “never” argue as he swapped relationship stories with George Clooney. The NFL star compared notes wit…
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December 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's OK to disagree, because that obviously happens. Learning how to disagree is the thing.
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As CBP forces began disappearing residents in the greater New Orleans area, the New Orleans City Council launched an online portal for residents to report civil & #humanrights abuses by ICE & CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during
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December 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
As CBP forces began disappearing residents in the greater New Orleans area, the New Orleans City Council launched an online portal for residents to report civil & #humanrights abuses by ICE & CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
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ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
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SEPTOPUS. BLOB OCTOPUS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mystery as remains of seven-arm deep-sea octopus wash up on beach
Arms from the rarely-seen species were discovered at an Aberdeenshire national nature reserve.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
SEPTOPUS. BLOB OCTOPUS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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*stares in Adelita Grijalva*
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
*stares in Adelita Grijalva*
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.