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When Someone You Love Walks Away, It Hurts

Living
November 21, 2025
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By Jen Brooks

When Someone You Love Walks Away, It Hurts

There’s a kind of loss rarely talked about. It doesn’t come with a funeral service or casseroles from friends. There’s…

Grown Children, Living
November 18, 2024
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By Her View From Home

The Missing Grandparents

Another recital has come and gone, but you were not there. Another birthday, another Christmas, another milestone you have missed.…

Losing My Narcissistic Mother Is Complicated

Grief, Loss
March 29, 2023
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By Her View From Home

Losing My Narcissistic Mother Is Complicated

It’s so utterly destructive. It’ll knock the wind—no the very oxygen—out of your sails. It’s nauseating. Conflicting. Terrifying. And so…

Sometimes Letting Go of Uninvolved Family Is the Only Way Forward

Living, Motherhood
February 9, 2023
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By Kersten Cook

Sometimes Letting Go of Uninvolved Family Is the Only Way Forward

As I was scrolling through my Timehop, I came across a picture. That picture was of my mother and my…

Grown Children, Living
November 27, 2022
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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…

Setting Boundaries with Toxic Family Is Hard but Worth It

Motherhood
October 4, 2022
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By Amanda Kilgore

Setting Boundaries with Toxic Family Is Hard but Worth It

Breaking generational chains is one of the most amazing, beautiful, and beneficial things I've done for my family. My children…

Caring For My Toxic Mother Is An Offering, Not a Duty

Grown Children
September 8, 2022
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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…

Even a Strained Family Relationship Hurts When it Ends

Grief, Living
May 28, 2022
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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…

My Absent Father is the Reason I’ll Always Put My Son First

Grown Children, Living
April 6, 2022
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By Evelyn Kulcsar Ernano

My Absent Father is the Reason I’ll Always Put My Son First

Hi Dad, it’s me, your little girl. I am now a parent myself. I now have my own little kid…

Dear Uninvolved Family, You Don’t Know What You’re Missing

Motherhood
November 2, 2021
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By Emma Wilson

Dear Uninvolved Family, You Don’t Know What You’re Missing

Dear uninvolved family, It's sad that you don't care enough to come see us, to bother with my children. You…

I’m Done Trying To Include Uninvolved Family

Living, Motherhood
September 23, 2021
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By Her View From Home

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…

I Hoped Becoming Grandparents Would Change My Absent Parents

Grown Children, Motherhood
October 15, 2020
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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…