Love is Iraq
Jerry Seinfeld once said that if dating is like a game of paintball, then marriage is Iraq. Your husband laughed too hard at this joke for it to be funny to you anymore.
Christine Ma-Kellams
Christine Ma-Kellams is a social psychologist and college professor at San Jose State University. Her empirical work focuses on the culturally-bound ways of what makes people tick while her writing likewise centers around issues of identity and close relationships. Her fiction and essays have appeared in HuffPost, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Colorado Review, the Rumpus, Catapult, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere; her debut novel, The Band, is forthcoming from Atria in Spring 2024. Her website is https://www.christinema-kellams.com/