all of this unlimited abuse at any given point in their lives.
how can we promise to do our best when we don’t even know the extent of their access to our children?
adolescence is such a difficult watch. there’s so many children in my family that ive helped babysit, tutored, and have them come to me for advice. and every single time my only hope or even prayer is that they don’t face the unseen abuse we’ve had to face through school/college
im getting closer and closer to my own marriage, and three to four years into it we’ll have our own children (probably, if it goes the way it does). i cant wrap my head around the fact that no matter what we do as parents/siblings/aunts/uncles, our children may be exposed to
from thinking romance was dead to marrying the most romantic man in the world whose tiniest gestures are an ode to his love and respect for our relationship,,,, i think i’ll be ok
I’ve had a lot of practice on how to respond to texts, whether from nice/loser men, creeps, toxic managers, crazy reportees, loverppl, anxious parents, angry siblings, frenemies, but no one told me about the anxiety of having to text back your future mother-in-law??