‘We were only together a few months when I changed jobs. I quit because they weren’t treating me fairly. I was young and stupid.’

“‘Men don’t just quit their jobs, Brad… they find something else first and they stick it out. That’s just what adults do.’ She was worried because I wasn’t.”

‘He’s crushed and I’m dying laughing’: Dad hilariously replies to daughter’s tweet about his ‘disbelief, anger’ over Red Hot Chili Peppers concert instead being ‘PIPERS’

“I was driving around Evansville, Indiana, and saw a billboard for what I thought was the Red Hot Chili Peppers coming to The Victory Theatre in August. I didn’t get a great look at the billboard.”

‘I blurted out what first came to mind; I would have an abortion.’

“We watched our butterfly kind of stumble around a bit, until we said, ‘Mommy loves you,’ and ‘Daddy loves you’ The butterfly flew away into an overcast sky.”

‘My half-brother became an orphan at 2 years old, and was finally adopted after 458 days, by me – his sister.’

“Easton attended the second most monumental funeral of his life before he could even talk in full sentences. He became an orphan, unexpectedly, in only 12 days. He’s now a brother to 4 sisters whom he is biologically the uncle of!”

‘I was an emotional blob who couldn’t peel myself off my couch’: After miscarriages, postpartum depression, mom loses 100 pounds ‘not for wife me, not mom me, but ME’

“During my depression, at its worst, I was sure I would be on an episode of ‘My 600-lb Life’ by the time I was 35. I am so glad I made a U-Turn in the right direction and I have made the changes to be a better me, wife, and mother.”

‘I found out I was adopted at the age of 45 on April Fool’s Day.’

“I was looking through old family photos when my wife comes in and says, ‘I need you to read this, and pull up a chair.'”

‘They each had handmade rings in their little hands and asked her to be theirs forever’: Dad and his 4 sons pull off perfect proposal for their future stepmom

“After his divorce a few years ago, Kevin had written a letter to his future wife. I hid that letter in a little mailbox just outside the barn. As she read the letter with tears in her eyes, all the boys snuck in and got down on one knee behind her.”

‘There is absolutely no sperm in the sample. What about our 3-4 kids!?’ Young couple’s struggle to cope with male factor infertility

“So many thoughts rushed through my head. ‘What are we doing here? We are healthy 26 year olds! What does IVF even entail!? Can we afford it?!’”

‘I can’t take it anymore. The school shootings. The political divide. The border.’ Fed up mom’s advice on the ONE THING to make it better

“I don’t have all of the answers. But I do have this. I do have this one thing to offer.”

What I Want My Child To Know After They F*ck Up

“In anticipation of an occurrence that I wholeheartedly hope never happens, but undoubtedly know will, I have preemptively drafted myself a script that I will hopefully remember in the coming years…”

‘What time do you think you’ll be home?’ Dad’s candid admission about the question that ‘always pissed’ him off

“It’s been the same message every day for years now. Usually beginning in the afternoon and even more-so around work finish time.”

‘I was putting away two cases of beer each week’: Man decides to shake his ‘dad bod’ on Father’s Day, loses 70 pounds one year later

“I was bloated, fatigued, and increasingly unhappy with my situation, financially and emotionally. I felt like I was coming up short as a husband and father.”

‘My mom even told the nurses, ‘Don’t feel bad you can’t fix her, we have accepted she will die from anorexia.”

“Just try and keep her alive for as long as possible and maybe some miracle will happen, and she will recover.”

‘Some days I said ‘no’ to more than 20 kids. The need for foster families was huge. Finally, I had a case worker ask me, ‘What will you say yes to?’ It made made us reevaluate.’

“We didn’t set out to be a large family. In fact when we first got married, my husband and I were convinced we didn’t want any kids. We were young. We didn’t know much and later we changed our minds! “

Screentime Is Making Kids Moody, Crazy and Lazy

“If done correctly, this intervention can produce deeper sleep, a brighter mood, better focus and organization, and an increase in physical activity.”

‘Her battle ended, but she was not defeated. She was ready, her time here was fulfilled’: Cancer-stricken mother shares powerful final photo shoot with family

“As Mama lay in her bed, she made sure to tell me what I needed to hear to accept the inevitable. You can never be prepared to lose someone of such value in your life, but she tried to make it painless for us.”

‘On our wedding day, my mom gave my husband a note. A note that was just for the two of them.’: Daughter reminisces on mom after her death, ‘My person is gone’

“The day my mom died I called my husband. He began to tell me a story about my mom — a story about I never knew before, because she didn’t want me to know.”

‘8 months before this picture was taken, at the recommendation of my gynecologist, I went off Zoloft for the first time in a decade.’

“‘It’s better if you just get off of it,’ he said to me, without ever asking if I thought that would be the right choice for my personal situation. Wanting to start off on the right foot as a mother, I was obedient and followed his instructions without question. What I didn’t know, however, was there were other options.”

‘The guy seated next to me is my good friend Chris. He is also my wife’s ex-husband and the father of my two stepsons.’

“Now, truth is, we didn’t start out this close. Blended families aren’t always easy. But I really love the guy. He inspires me to be a better man.”

‘It’s easy to fool ourselves into thinking we’re seeing the full picture’: Mom’s reminder that social media is just ‘snapshots’ of the larger reality

“But here’s the reality… a snapshot will never tell our whole story.”

‘You can’t expect her to act like a princess if she’s treated like a slave’: Dad’s honest reply after being asked if he ‘felt unhappy with the monotony’ of his marriage

“Don’t for one second think it’s all on her to make things better or more exciting.”

‘I was 18 years old, a college dropout, unemployed, and living at my parents’ house with my boyfriend when I found out I was pregnant.’

“To anyone else out there struggling with similar feelings or thoughts, just remember you’re not the only one. I want you to know you are not alone.”

‘I want to be very honest. You do not always enjoy the children that come into your home’: Mom of 9 gets candid about fostering and adoption

“Our kids have learned about compassion, but also about heroin, what it means to violate parole, and how to test for drugs using a hair follicle.”

‘I couldn’t bear another miscarriage. If I lost this baby, I would have to be hospitalized to prevent me from ending my life.’

“She has shown me a love I could have never imagined and has taught me to be thankful for each day we have together. She is my hero, and she saved my life.”