She noticed her mom recording her with her son and didn’t think twice. But her mom already had a video of them doing the same exact thing decades ago when she was still little.
I am bringing this up again: the family background of your spouse will play a vital role in your marriage and in the development of your children. Love may bring two people together, but habits, culture, beliefs, discipline, communication style, trauma, pride, humility, and family patterns will eventually walk into the home too. Never underrate the influence of what someone was raised around. Love alone is not enough.
can’t believe there are mothers out there who don’t make their children feel like stars. like why do bitches put their body through destruction and create life….not to make their child feel like the greatest thing that ever happened?
My grandma always said “toodaloo” instead of goodbye because she hated goodbyes. When she passed away we were on our way to bury her ashes in the cemetery and we were stopped at a traffic light. There was a red Pontiac Sunfire in front of us with a license plate that said “toodaloo” on it. I kid you not we all lost our minds and started crying.
My spouse saying to the four year old about his brother, "He is telling you about it because he's excited, not because he thinks you don't know." And that, my friends, is also a lesson I need to hear.
Misery loves company. Some people want you to go through things you never deserved simply because they’re used to living in hell. Don’t let somebody else’s suffering become your address.
Honestly, I feel sorry for you if you've never been betrayed by someone you love in such a way that makes you question the integrity of your entire relationship. Because until that happens, you'll think that faith and trust are maintained by always doing the right thing. No. Faith is supposed to persist despite people often being horrible and stupid and lazy and ugly. That's what faith is. If you were to examine yourself truly, you would see how many times, big or small, you have let other people down, and yet still loved them anyway and wanted to become better. So it is with people who hurt you. Faith in love persists even when people are doing bad things to each other.
If you love someone long enough you will probably betray them. And they will betray you. Over and over again. But you would be surprised how easy it is to let these betrayals go, if you are both committed on a path toward becoming more loving toward each other.
My dad has picked my mom up from work almost every day for the past 27 years.
She has a car.
He has a car.
It would be much easier for both of them to drive separately.
I asked him once why he still does it.
He looked genuinely confused by the question.
He said, "Because then we get an extra twenty minutes together."
Long marriages are often built in small pieces.