By Carolyn Moore Think You’re Turning Into Your Mother? You Probably Are.
"We should have went yesterday," my son said through a mouthful of granola this morning. "Gone," I automatically corrected, throwing…
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By Jessica Grillo The Unimaginable Heartbreak of Losing Your Mom
To a girl, her mom is her first best friend. The person who teaches her what a woman should be.…
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By Her View From Home I Can’t Change My Mom, But I Can Change the Way I Let Her Affect Me
I have often heard stories of how when women become mothers, it strengthens the bond with their own moms. They…
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By Christie Lynn Where Do You Turn When the Only Person You Need is Your Mom?
I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I had a bad day. I had a terrible week.…
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No Matter What You’ve Been Told, You are Worthy of Love
There are days I still feel like the 11-year-old girl whose dreams were shattered by the person who held my…
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By Chelsea Ohlemiller The Room Where We Said Goodbye
It wasn’t the hospital. It was a room in my sister’s house. A room where you would spend your final…
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By Heather Delaney I Just Miss Her Today
I woke up this morning missing her. A lot. There was no reason. Nothing triggered it. Today is not a…
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By Amber Watson I Search For My Mom in Everything, Especially Christmas
Grief is a funny thing. Sometimes you're able to anticipate the blow, and other times, it hits you in the…
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Mom Wouldn’t Want Me To Just Survive Christmas—She’d Tell Me To Embrace the Joy
To love Christmastime is to love my momma. Everything bright. Everything sweet. Everything happy. She was the embodiment of it…
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By Jessica Urlichs Dear Mom, I Understand Everything Now
Dear Mom, There is so much I didn’t understand back then, but now I do. I never understood why sometimes…
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I’m Grieving the Mother I Deserved While Loving the One I Was Given
My mother is bipolar. Not as a punchline to a joke, but genuinely, medically diagnosed as bipolar. She has been…
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By Liz Curtis Faria Getting Through the Holidays as a Motherless Daughter
Before my mother died but when she was very sick, I was dropping my son off at daycare. When we…
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