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Laurie James spent most of her life wondering what it means to belong; loneliness dictated the choices she made. She rarely shared this secret with others, however; it was always, hidden behind a carefree and can-do attitude.
When she's in her mid-forties, Laurie's mother has a heart attack and her husband's lawyer delivers some shocking news. She suddenly finds herself sandwiched between caring for her parents, managing unruly caregivers, raising...
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Nothing is easy in a blended family, and now more than ever, the world needs our blended families to succeed.
The modern blended family is rapidly evolving. While more and more families are being created from the ashes of first marriages, they are often regulated to the shadows, regarded as second rate or "less than." But blended families are a critical component to the overall health and well-being of future generations.
Blended families by virtue...
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Parents should not divorce their children. Children should not divorce their parents.It is a sad reality, that, in many cases, we ended up, unwittingly and by ricochet, divorcing our children when we don't want it to happen. However, that doesn't mean that we the divorced parents do not love our children. Quite the opposite. Is that some of us get to find the way to continue fighting the battle. While for many others of us, the struggle hurts so much...
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Over 2 million single mothers in the world today, one can only wonder whether this has any effect on children raised in single-parent homes. Whilst we can never praise single mums enough, it is necessary to mention that there are occasions when this is an individual option made by some women to raise children without the physical aid of their father. This particular short story relives the story of a young father with little access to his first and...
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Hi, I'm Pandemic Mom.
When the Covid Pandemic first hit the United States, Marianna Pease was about six months pregnant with her first child. She gave birth to her daughter during the first wave of the Pandemic in June 2020 when the rules of the virus where still new and fear was in the air. She asked her midwife if she would have to give birth wearing a face mask and was warned by a nurse one night in a 9pm phone call she may need to give birth...
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How could I have been so stupid and gullible?
Those miserable twelve months finally made sense. Deep down, Louise Mathison had known the whole time. Her husband with whom she had been with for sixteen years was having an affair.
That night she uncovered the truth, she couldn't sleep, she could hardly breathe...she felt sick to the core, like someone had taken a knife and plunged it into her gut, then twisted it.
Life as she knew it...
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Divorce has devastating effects on children. Yet for divorcing parents who carefully consider and manage the intricacies associated with this difficult time, both parents, as seen from the child's perspective, can remain as loving and supportive as they ever were.
Parenting Through Divorce concisely lays out the specific emotions and reactions parents need to anticipate from their children while going through separation, divorce, and its after-math....
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Every decision has a consequence…
The break-up of Olivia's marriage is hard on all involved, but especially her nine-year-old daughter, Ellie. They attempt to build a new life, and focus on the future. But Olivia is crushingly lonely, so when her new neighbour, Michael, extends the hand of friendship, it's all she can do to stop herself clutching at it and never letting go.
Olivia has no idea how the course of her life will be altered by that...
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Un-Settling speaks to mothers and their children who have settled enough already to mothers whose marriage they'd settled for no longer worked, who took a big leap and resolved to build something better for their kids. But somewhere along the way, the anxiety over whether the kids are going to be okay has disconnected mothers from the fierce Warrior Mama who made that brave choice. Certified life coach Maggie McReynolds encourages mothers to take...
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Divorce has devastating effects on children. Yet for divorcing parents who carefully consider and manage the intricacies associated with this difficult time, both parents, as seen from the child's perspective, can remain as loving and supportive as they ever were.
Parenting Through Divorce concisely lays out the specific emotions and reactions parents need to anticipate from their children while going through separation, divorce, and its aftermath....
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A Single Mom Shares Her Inspiring and Funny Tales of Parenting, Full of Love, Advice, and Humor.
Being a single mother means relaxing your cleanliness standards. A lot. Being a single mother means missing your kids like crazy when your ex has them, only to want to give them back ten minutes after they come home. Being a single mother means accepting sleep deprivation as a natural state. Being a single mother means hauling a toddler, a baby, and a...
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Southern women are inundated with rules starting early-from always wearing sensible shoes to never talking about death to the dying, and certainly not relying on song lyrics for marriage therapy.
Nevertheless, Katherine Snow Smith keeps doing things like falling off her high heels onto President Barack Obama, gaining dubious status as the middle school "lice mom," and finding confirmation in the lyrics of Miranda Lambert after her twenty-four-year...
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Rachel likes to think of herself as a nice Jewish girl, dedicated to doing what's honorable, just as her parents raised her to do. But when her husband, David, survives a plane crash and is left with severe brain damage, she faces a choice: will she dedicate her life to caring for a man she no longer loves, or walk away? Their marriage had been rocky at the time of the accident, and though she wants to do the right thing, Rachel doesn't know how she...
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The award—winning author of Shadow Child embarks on a simple journey to record history that changes her life as a wife and mother.
In June 2001, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto went to Hiroshima, Japan, in search of a deeper understanding of her war-torn heritage. She planned to spend six months there, interviewing the few remaining survivors of the atomic bomb. A mother of two young boys, she was encouraged to go by her husband, who quickly became disenchanted...
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