I firmly believe that being a single parent is one of the most challenging jobs in the world, and I salute every single parent out there for all their hard work. Not only do they have to raise their kid, or kids, all alone, but they have to work while doing it and maintaining a roof over their family's head. Some even do it without any help from the rest of their family, and still manage to take care of everything all alone. Like the single mother in this Reddit story, who raised her son all al…

Time to tightly close the love jar

can you wear the wrong color to a baby shower?

The reality of this weird world is that kids these days have about a 50/50 chance for their parents to stay together and not get a divorce (46% divorce rate in America alone). That means many kids have to deal with a possibly inevitable rift between their parents, which is quite a challenging experience, to say the least. It is incredibly hard to be a kid of divorce and not blame yourselves for the rift between your parents. The daughter in this Reddit story, surely felt like she had a hand wit…

When 18-year-old kids finally graduate high school and are heading to college, they might hear and have many conversations regarding the ‘college experience’. They talk about it with their parents, friends, and siblings, and in these conversations, the people who have had the college experience might tell them that they should go to college with an open mind and usually, with no strings attaching them home. While I don't think you have to be single in order to enjoy college, going away to colle…

It's amazing, or rather shocking, how far people are willing to go to avoid facing the consequences of their actions. Lies and deception all just so they won't have to admit to the mistakes they made. All that until, inevitably, the truth comes out, and all the relationships they build on top of those lies face destruction. The father in this Reddit story is now facing the destruction of the relationship he has with his son because he tried to hide the truth about his birth. The father was marr…

When people become parents, the concept of ‘free time’ changes completely. Parents simply cannot allow themselves to drop all their responsibilities and disappear, as they have actual humans to look after. If one wishes to become a parent, they have to understand that their time will never be solely their own anymore. That is a lesson that the husband in this Reddit story has to learn as soon as possible before it costs him his entire family. After losing his job, the husband decided to take ti…

running a full-time daycare is not what this SAHM thought her life would be like

Major win for the bride

Stay out or move out

Thank you, next!

As much as we all would love to have the perfect fairytale relationship in which everything works out exactly how you both want it to and everything happens exactly when you want it to, it is often not the case. Relationships are messy, unexpected, and complicated. There are always changes and surprises that the couple has to deal with, and the way they deal with those kinds of challenges is a testimony to how strong their relationship actually is. A big unexpected change that happens in a lot…

One of the most important parenting tips that I can give young parents is always to be a unanimous front in front of their children. Never fight in front of the kids, and never turn the kids against the other parent. You have to be together, or at least appear to be together when you are educating your kids, and only later, behind closed doors, talk about the disagreements you might have with one other. Otherwise, the only thing that the kids will learn is that they can get away with whatever t…

You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat animals. It shows their respect for boundaries, how kind they are, and how patient. This is the same reason why people say that getting a pet is a good test to see how you will handle having actual kids. And I firmly believe that applies not only for the parents but to everyone else in the family as well. The family in this Reddit story showed their true colors when the older sibling and his girlfriend decided to adopt a cat. The mom completel…

A lot to unpack here

Buying someone you love a birthday gift is more than just picking up the most expensive item at a store. The gift has to show you actually care about that person, that you take an interest in things they enjoy, and that you know what would make them happy. If you truly care for the person you are buying a gift for, choosing that gift should not be that hard. Sometimes, even when they don't fully mean it, people miss the whole point of gift-giving and completely fumble with their present, like t…