“What I want to tell you most about having a husband who is gone a lot is this: It is harder on him than it is on me. He goes days, weeks, and months without a hug from someone who loves him.”
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LJ Herman
My husband is gone a lot, but I am NOT a single mom
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‘THIS is real life’ Mom’s emotional plea when ‘you feel like you’re going insane’ as a parent
“THIS is the dark side of parenting they don’t tell you about in books.”
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‘This woman needs to be commended’: Stranger’s act of kindness for family in airport will leave you in tears
“The agent kept talking about her goosebumps while the man hugged the woman and asked for her name.”
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‘I’m so sorry. I can’t find the heartbeat’: Husband’s gripping account of pregnancy journey ‘nobody talks about it’
“You don’t want to hate people. You don’t. I think babies are beautiful. I think kids are awesome, but you can’t help the jealousy. The envy. The resentment.”
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‘This too is beautiful. This too is a miracle.’ Birth photographer empowers C-section moms to realize their births are not ‘diminished, reduced’
“I hope these photos are shared and embraced for all of us mothers who didn’t get the ‘ideal’ birth, who thought that our bodies were broken, who didn’t get to see our child take his or her first breath.”
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‘She knew I was her mom and that we were hers’: After tragedy, mom shares emotional adoption journey to heal her broken family
“I have been on a mission to love this child so completely and unconditionally, that nothing thrown her way will ever be tough enough to beat her.”
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‘At nine-years-old, she said ‘I don’t think I will ever feel joy.’
“Watching a child I loved assume joy was too far gone for her to grasp, I knew exactly what to do.”
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10 routines that will strengthen a parent-child relationship
“Kids who feel strongly connected to their parents are more eager to cooperate with them, so it’s worth the effort to enhance that bond. It also just feels great.”
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It’s a never ending cycle that prompts whispers in my mind of, ‘Is this all that I’m made for?’
“It feels like even though I’m always running, I’m never really getting anywhere at all.”
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‘There is no reason why an eight-year-old who watched his mother be murdered not know the love of a stranger.’
“It took his left-behind toothbrush to undo me.”
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