Tag: family
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Young Mom Chronicles: Growing Together with My Daughter
Reflections on starting motherhood at 20 and learning to grow up side by side I didn’t just raise my daughter. I’ve grown up with her. I was 20 when I found out I was pregnant. I didn’t feel ready, but I knew I wanted to be better—for her, and for myself. What I didn’t know…
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We Don’t Let Any Man Talk to Us Like That — Not Even Our Dads
I went to the coffee shop last week to get work done and give my daughter space to process what had just surfaced in therapy. It was heavy. She had just realized, with the help of her therapist, how deeply her dad’s behavior affects her — how he makes her feel bad when she doesn’t…
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33, Unmet Expectations & Becoming Super Mom
This month, I turned 33.And honestly? Life looks nothing like I expected it to. I’ve been in the job market, like so many others, applying one role at a time, sending one message at a time, taking one brave conversation at a time. It’s discouraging sometimes. I’ve spent years in communications and brand marketing, telling…
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Adapting to change is hard, but necessary
We visited Arizona the weekend of Halloween, and it was a very emotional trip. For the past year and a half, we hadn’t seen our friends and family, so this was what Ali and I both needed. We surprised my grandmother with our arrival, and as I’d guessed, she was in total disbelief. And she…
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Your strong friend gets tired of being strong
You know how some people are naturally conditioned to give? The kind of people who will stop everything they’re doing to support someone that’s struggling, all the while they could be struggling, too? That’s me. So often, my well-meaning friends and family will say to me, “You’re so strong.” “I don’t know how you do…
Mommy Finger, Baby Finger 