The Rap Ode To Muffin Tops You Didn't Know You Needed

Posted: 02/26/2014 9:24 am EST Updated: 02/26/2014 9:59 am EST

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Erin Keaney has message for moms and their muffin tops: "Embrace your mother load!"

I Didn't Have Sex for a Year, and I'm Still Married

Natalie Singer-Velush Become a fan 

Seattle mom of two and Managing Editor, ParentMap Magazine

Posted: 02/27/2014 1:22 pm EST Updated: 02/27/2014 1:59 pm EST

Married parents have been under attack lately, from all angles. This month, we've heard that longtime married couples in the kind of egalitarian and committed partnerships that the women of my generation -- raised under the '80s roof of divorce and disappointment -- strived for don't have sex as often as, well, anyone else. If we'remarried with kids, we might as well just forget romance: Maybe we brush each other's dishpan hands as we complaisantly pass the peas from freezer to microwave or fold endless, laundered sock pairs into balls, or once in a blue moon slam together to breed. But that's it.

We're miserable parents, too, it seems, all joy and no fun (though we wouldn't change it for a million childless, 20-something, tipsy, heart-racing, very-definition-of-freedom nights).