“It’s really just his personality.”
‘My dad had other ideas…’: Father hilariously intervenes at daughter’s marriage proposal
Dear Mom—Please Stop Telling Me To Suppress My Emotions
“I understand that I have to be good most of the time, and I understand that I need my sleep to grow big and strong but please remember that I am just a child.”
From the ashes rose an ‘Ember’: Miracle baby born to ‘hero’ firefighter after devastating wildfires
“Ember embodies the light at the end of the tunnel. The beauty that is still capable despite the pain the past year had brought.”
‘She was ejected’: Mom’s urgent warning about seat belt covers as 2-month-old is catapulted from car seat
“We had to learn the hard way.”
My Sweet Newborn, I Don’t Want To Lose These Magical Moments With You In My Arms
“Tonight, I think I’ll stay here with you for just a while longer.”
No, C-Sections Are Not ‘The Easy Way Out’
“There seems to be an odd assumption that having a C-section is some sort of magical and pain-free alternative to natural childbirth.”
‘There’s no way I’d give them my expensive lunch meat. I’m going to buy Jif for when they come over.’: Woman ‘horrified’ by the conversation she overheard in Starbucks
“I was horrified. This woman in her Lululemons, drinking her expensive Starbucks latte was complaining about feeding children?! Then she went on to say that she wants to teach a kindness class in her daughter’s class. Which I found even more confusing. I was that neighborhood kid. I relied on my neighbors to help me because my parents (who worked hard and are wonderful) sometimes couldn’t.”
‘A real life Disney Prince’: Man’s incredible weight loss transformation after mom was in a coma
“She didn’t recognize me the first day she was back. It was a very emotional time for me.”
To The Mom Who Fell Short Today
“On the tough days, see yourself through those eyes that look up to you and you will know you’re everything they need, just as you are.”
‘She shows me the beauty of the world. Through heart failure, low glucose, Down syndrome and near death, she smiles!’
“I never pictured myself in such a place with any of my children that I may no longer have them.”
‘These boys are safe, loved and above all, ours forever. We stood in front of the judge. ‘Adoption granted.’ At that moment, all the weight fell away.’: Adoptive mom knew ‘something was missing,’ says ‘faith, infertility’ were not factors
“Older children adoptions are said to have a ‘honeymoon period.’ That wonderful time where everyone is on their best behavior and all is right in the world. Ours lasted about 3 days. People have told me how lucky my boys are to have found us. I tell them they have it backwards. It’s ME who is the lucky one.”
This Mom Life Is All I Ever Hoped And Prayed For, And I Don’t Want To Miss It
“I started to think about how many other things I do every day without really noticing them. So much of this early part of motherhood becomes routine so very quickly.”
I Quit My Day Job To Be A Stay-At-Home Mom
“If there is any way you can make it work to stay home with your babies–and if your heart is called to do so–I encourage you to take that leap of faith.”
‘The past is in the past now’: Innocent man returns to Chicago White Sox after 23 years in prison
After 23 years in jail, Nevest Coleman wants to get back to work.
‘I found ‘employment.’ It was anonymous web cam sex with strangers. Anything I had to do to support the habit had to be done. I used my own daughter as a pawn.’: Mom overcomes addiction, ‘Life can be beautiful again! I promise. Don’t give up.’
“When we got ready for the ceremony. My sister put on her wedding jewelry, and in a split second, I saw her turn, and I swiped her gold necklace. On her WEDDING DAY. I pawned it, and knew I was good for another day.”
‘My father came out to me when I was 28, and he was 49’: How mom handled her dad’s gay marriage with her kids
“Whatever happens, whatever they hear, whatever they ask, we are ready. It’s not as complicated as I once imagined. Love is love. And kids understand love.”
‘I went into sheer panic. I knew something was seriously wrong.’ Mom recounts emotional twin birth after infertility battle
“I felt a gush and immediately thought, ‘Oh my gosh, my water broke!’ I felt around and my hand was covered in blood.”
My Mental Illness Makes It Hard To Be Loved
“I don’t need someone to tell me what to do or how to do it when it comes to depression or anxiety. All I want—all I truly want—is someone to just to love me through it.”
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My Kids Are Not An Inconvenience (For You)
“I will not apologize for having kids, and I won’t apologize for my kids being…kids.”
Dear Middle School Son: I Have A Few Things I’d Like You To Know
“You were designed perfectly, imperfect. You will make mistakes. Do and say dumb things. Have some regrets. But, you will also overcome.”
‘My hero doesn’t wear a cape, he wears flannel’: Farmer’s daughter brings him to tears with touching wedding day tribute
“Although I knew getting married wouldn’t change me being his little girl, and him my hero, something about him ‘giving me away’ was so hard to swallow.”
‘She lifted her head and said, ‘I hate foster care.’’: Foster mother shares candid look inside system
“We packed her up, kissed her forehead, and watched as she left our home and lives forever. My eight year daughter lay in my arms, sobbing. ‘We’re never going to see her again.'”
‘Her expression to her miracle baby girl having a baby of her own could not have been captured more perfectly’
“She lost a baby girl just 11 months before I was born, after trying for years to conceive. To get pregnant only months after the tragic loss of a child was, in my parents eyes, a gift from God.”
‘I was worried I’d never become a mother, and that was something I know I was born to be.’
“I couldn’t understand what I had done so wrong in my life to prevent me from having something that should come to my body so naturally.”