If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m separated from my son’s father and for the most part, I’ve had some wonderful support from family and friends. It’s often hard to accept help, but I’m so grateful to have someone make me dinner, help look after [...]
Tags: Relationships, single moms, single parents
Posted in: Parenting
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It’s taken me about thirty years, but at last I think I’ve made peace with my body image. It’s been through diets, exercise regimes taken up and abandoned, my weight fluctuating between 100 and 160lbs, boyfriends, marriage, separation, a new relationship, and the most important factor: my son.
Gaining pregnancy weight - a lot of pregnancy [...]
Tags: Body Image, Breastfeeding, pregnancy weight, Relationships, self-esteem, weight gain
Posted in: Baby, Breastfeeding
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After my experiences this weekend (short version: my birthday and Father’s Day fell on the same weekend and my wife - five months pregnant wife - was feeling unwell most of the weekend, limiting our activities) I feel the need to write this post. I believe it needs to be said.
First, to the wives, [...]
Tags: guilt, Pregnancy, Relationships
Posted in: Pregnancy
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There’s an epidemic raging on in Europe and it’s called football. And don’t tell the Europeans that it should be called soccer if you value your life. The European Football Championships are starting in Switzerland and Austria this weekend and the fever is soaring high despite the pouring rain. I have gone through this twice [...]
Tags: Football, Relationships, sports, women
Posted in: Current Events, Entertainment
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Seriously, a recent study has indicated that spouses who have verbal fights really do have better health and are therefore less likely to die early. Early results of the study conducted at the University of Michigan show that couples who do not resolve their differences and suppress their feeling are more likely to die earlier [...]
Tags: cmmunication, Relationships, spouses - fighting
Posted in: News
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