By Her View From Home Even When It’s Right, Walking Away Hurts
It’s a weird thing, mourning the living. It’s like your brain just can’t quite wrap itself around the process the…
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By Connie Cumming My Toxic Father Does Not Define Me
I don’t have a father, and it’s completely fine. It really, really is. It’s taken me 40 years to say…
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By Autumn Knapp Caring For My Toxic Mother Is An Offering, Not a Duty
I’m living smack in the middle of a generational sandwich. If you haven’t heard the term before, “sandwich generation” refers…
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By Jessica Wanner Setting Boundaries Has Side Effects No One Talks About
I cut off my brother a few months ago. Easter Sunday, to be exact. It wasn’t something I wanted to…
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A Mother/Daughter Bond Should Be Unbreakable, but Sometimes It Isn’t
It’s OK to grieve your absent parents while they’re still alive. I see so many articles or well-meaning posts from…
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By Calleen Petersen Even a Strained Family Relationship Hurts When it Ends
Hallmark movies always give a happy ending after a complicated story. But what do you do when you don’t get…
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I’m Done Trying To Include Uninvolved Family
I just sent you photos of my son playing soccer, and at Disney, and out shopping for his very first…
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I Changed My Name Today and That Was The Easy Part
I changed my name back to my maiden name today. There was no great pomp or circumstance, the change was…
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By Melanie Forstall I’m Distancing Myself From My Dysfunctional Family
“You are an island, Melanie—an island alone!” she yelled at me. Her words were in part, a statement of what…
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By Jenni Brennan I Hoped Becoming Grandparents Would Change My Absent Parents
Everything that is good about me as a parent was learned from my own parents. They have given me a…
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By Angela Hampton I Wish I Had a Mother Who Cared
It hits me at the strangest times. This morning, one of my daughter’s teachers held the door for her and…
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By Jennifer Bailey Dear Uninvolved Family, I’m Sad You Don’t Care Enough to Know Us
A letter to my family who isn’t interested in our son: Today I sent you pictures and recapped our fun-filled,…
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