HeyJaredThe Elyse Edit
Essays for folks who think too much, feel too hard, and laugh too loudly.
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Stop being the PR manager for shitty men (opens the original)
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Divorce has been a hot topic of conversation around me this summer. Not firsthand (Brad and I are good), but our inner circle has been a goopy soup of heartache.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Oxo
Do you want to run errands with me? (opens the original)
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In 2012, I spent months avoiding one of the most annoying bureaucratic errands imaginable: changing my last name.Brad and I got married that May, and while I'd decided months earlier to change my last name from Gibson to Ash, the actual process pushed my executive functioning to its limits. It required gathering a mountain of disparate paperwork, going to the Social Security office during business hours, waiting in a long-ass line, and talking to government officials. No wonder I kept putting it
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