Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

We both lacked the same thing in our childhoods – the love of a father… We both sought to fill that lack in our adult lives with family and love, as everyone does, but also...

Jealousy clings to love’s underside like bats to a bridge.

Motherhood is a blissful chain…I have a mother – my precious gift…I am a mother – the best of my kind!

I write to get ideas out of my head

Maybe it’s time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I’m not sure how.

A true diamond never over shadows… it’s the brilliance of the subtle shine that’s the most attractive.

Kujamiiana si anasa tena katika maisha yangu. Ni hitaji muhimu kwa ujenzi wa familia.

So what do we do?””We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.

Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.

Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.

Some people, no matter how much love you give them, cannot be saved. The first victories do not guarantee the last. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a point to loving them, or that the first...

Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from there brings you more love and smiles in your future. Wherever you are,...

You have to make your own family, your own life.

He crouched at the care window and looked in. “What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They’re all lovely. Except for that one.” His finger jabbed the glass. “That one’s a bit...

…my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks,...

Ladies and gentleman, Tim said. May I present to you, our son, Jason Grant!

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

The waitress brought a fresh pot of tea, and Marty refilled his father’s cup and poured a cup for Samantha. Henry in turn filled Marty’s. It was a tradition Henry cherished—never filling your own cup,...

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two,...

(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man “exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home.” Thus …...

Love’s the sonstood stammering elocutionwhile the poor ship in flames went down

A fridge will keep your steaks fresh, but keeping a live cow in grandmother’s room will keep the meat fresher. Let this be a lesson in love.

I promise.

My name is Monika Ora Moniker, but you can call me MOM. Or dad will do just fine.

My dad and I aren’t close, despite the fact that he’s standing in my shadow. My love for him must make him chilly.

In the absence of a cat, I’d consider cuddling with a synthetic fur coat. Especially if your dead grandma was wearing it.

I have made you some things, for when you get back. I understand now, all the baking you sent me, stale and crumbled in brown paper and rough twine. Now you’re away and I am...

We started out as five people whose lives just happened to cross paths. By the end of the summer we were family

El primero de la estirpe está amarrado a un árbol y al último se lo están comiendo las hormigas.

That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.

I know they’re not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it’s tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like...

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?”– Sandre to Catriana

That’s the kind of shit you do for the people you love, even when you don’t want them to know. You don’t have to tell someone you love them. You scream it with your actions....

I wish I worried about my uncle’s opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I’d settle for knowing what her voice sounded like.” I put a hand on her shoulder. “Trite...

With more time spent in their mother’s presence, Maggie kept topics of conversation to small stuff, seldom ever wanted to dig below the surface, learned from her mother: just be polite, which makes Callie’s own...

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” _Mark Twain (Author)

She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was not speaking aloud, and yet through the wings Meg understood words.”My child, do...

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family.

Yes, you would.

Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears were people of substantial or remarkable intellect, thought somehow none of them had prospered in the world....

Butterfly KissesAged imperfectionsstitched upon my faceyears and years of wisdomearned by His holy grace.Quiet solitude in a humble homeall the family scattered nowlike nomads do they roam.Then a giftsent from abovea memorypure and tangiblewrapped in...

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of “one-right-way” thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to...

I believe that a family is very important. You must have someone to come to after work to forget the stressful day. With Roy I have someone like that.

Darling, family can be the very devil in disguise. More powerful than any drug, more alluring than any sin. They can demand a loyalty that will rip your heart out and chew it up without...

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

To love me, my family does not need to understand me.

Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that...

Menopause is a perfectly natural process. As family members and friends recognize that this is a normal process and learn about the normal, natural symptoms, they will then treat the woman like she’s normal and...