@reason@mcuban@nickgillespie Imagine choosing candidates for their ideas, integrity, and qualifications—not just the D or R beside their names. Now that would be real progress!
Dolly Parton says she once went through a period so dark, she understood why people turn to drugs and alcohol.
“Yes, I went through a bad period of time back in the ’80s when I was going through the change. I was having some female problems, family problems, emotional problems, and I was overweight. I didn’t feel good about myself at all, so I got myself in a pretty bad bind.”
“I understood at that moment how people get on drugs, how people get on alcohol, and how people can commit suicide. I didn’t do that because I kept praying, holding on to God, and hanging on to my friends.”
“No business thing has ever been able to get me that depressed. It has to be something very personal, either family or something during that middle-age change of life, when your hormones and everything are different.”
“I did have a very hard time, but God, praying, friends, and just trying to hang on helped me. Being Dolly, just being me, I thought, ‘Hey, either get off your fat ass and do something about it, or go ahead and blow your head off.’ And I thought, ‘Nah, I ain’t gonna do that.’”
“I believe God meant for me to go through that so I could completely feel for other people about everything.”
A mother placed a "hug bell" in her living room, and whenever someone in the family felt the need for a hug, she would ring the bell to satisfy their need.
My Grandparents Were Married For 60 Years.
One Day I Asked My Grandfather:
“What’s The Secret To Loving The Same Woman For A Lifetime?”
He didn’t laugh.
He didn’t say “communication.”
He didn’t say “date nights.”
He looked at my grandmother, who was in the kitchen, and said:
“You don’t love the same woman.”
That confused me.
He said, “She changes every few years. And if you don’t update the way you love her, you lose her.”
He told me the girl he married at 22 wasn’t the same woman at 30.
Motherhood changed her.
Loss changed her.
Time changed her.
“At 40,” he said, “she needed respect more than romance.
At 50, she needed partnership more than passion.
At 60, she needed presence more than promises.”
And every time she changed, he had a choice:
Complain that she’s “not like she used to be.”
Or learn her again.
He said the biggest mistake men make is this:
They fall in love once.
Then stop paying attention.
“Loving a woman for a lifetime,” he told me,
“is deciding to stay curious about her.”
Not assuming you know her.
Not freezing her in the version you met.
He leaned back and said something I’ll never forget:
“If you stop studying her, someone else eventually will.”
Sixty years.
Not because it was easy.
Because he kept relearning her.
Can someone explain why the Humane Society is allowed to euthanize pets? If a person harms an animal, they may go to jail. Shelters MURDER dogs & cats daily. That makes no sense! No fur baby should be KILLED. We live in a messed-up world that needs a reset. 😩🤬#PuppyLove
Wow 😮 a birthday song to remember 🎁 he got her a custom song and she can’t believe it was about HER 🥹 look at the husbands face got me cracking up 😆 That was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯🫶🏽 what do u think? 👈
First your voice is absolutely beautiful second your dog is adorable and last your dad had me in tears, his reaction was priceless thank you for sharing ❤️