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My 13 year old has a friend over and I told them to please quiet down because the baby is sleeping and he (friend) told me to shut up?? My kids all froze and my son looked at him like wtf?? And my husband who was on a call in his office was like, "Joe, I need to call you back." They're now on a walk discussing respect, kid was still smirking until my husband walked out and told him to get his shoes because they were going to go have a talk. Weird afternoon.

I have 4 kids, but you see 3. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on my son, Ephraim. May he intercede for us in your kingdom.

My 16-year-old daughter works at an ice cream parlor after school. Last Tuesday at 9:45 PM, she texted me two words: "Red light." Her 24-year-old shift manager had just informed her that the adult closer called out sick, so she was expected to stay until 1:00 AM on a school night to clean the grease traps and lock up the store alone. She told him she had an exam at 8 AM. He scoffed and told her: "If you aren't a team player, don't expect hours on next week's schedule." She froze. Teenagers are conditioned to obey authority figures, even when those figures are taking complete advantage of them. I walked through the glass front doors at 9:55 PM. I didn't yell. I walked straight up to the counter, looked the manager in the eye, and said: "Under state labor law, 16-year-olds cannot work past 10:00 PM on a school night. My daughter is clocking out at ten. If you have an issue with scheduling, give me the franchise owner’s direct number right now." He stammered, turned red, and told her she could go. We spend years teaching our kids to be polite, obedient, and respectful to adults. If you don't teach them where the line is and show them that you will physically show up to hold that line predatory bosses and bad situations will walk all over them before they even finish high school.

A study of 10,000 parents showed that, of people going through a rough patch in their marriage, most will end up happy if they just stick it out 10 years later, 2/3 of those who stayed together reported that they were now happy and only 7% still unhappy

My wife and I decided to get a divorce. There were no fights, just two adults who realised they drifted apart from each other. This is probably the hardest thing I had to go through. First of all, telling our girls...seeing them so sad was heartbreaking. But we are still a team as parents and will do everything for them! Also we have to sell our house, the house I wanted to live in forever and raise my kids in... Going back to a smaller appartment will be rough. I still have a lot of to handle, that's why I wasn't active here on X. I'm really grateful for all the people who reached out and asked where I was 🙏🏼 This women will always be a part of my life, she gifted me with two perfect daughters. I wish her all the best, great memories were made in those years! I'll be back soon. Thank you everyone 🙏🏼

My husband isn’t drifting anywhere but older til he eventually drifts off to the grave and the has to deal with me in the afterlife. You think I’m going to make generations of our family fracture over *nothing*?!! Sorry kids you have to meet mom’s new boyfriend for Thanksgiving because I felt vaguely less connected to her back when you were little and the work of living distracted us from each other. Crazy. You’re in a stormy sea with your wife and kids you’ve got one boat to paddle those kids to shore and your ass is jumping out to try to find a better boat somewhere on the horizon. Now your babies wake up in every birthday in a house where mom or dad is gone. Forever. 😩

People think in a big family you should have girls first because they will raise later babies but ACTUALLY you should have sons first because then they will do all the heavy stuff or outdoor stuff that is really hard with littles and there's no cultural narrative that will convince them they were victimized by this stuff and in fact they like showing off. Bros is not gonna cut me off because bros had to put together an end table from IKEA and then lift the couch while I grab a lost toy and run down the road 5 times to get the ball the toddler threw downhill, wow you are crazy fast!! And in fact unlike eldest daughter duties which are isolating and depressing for the eldest daughter, this boy stuff gets deployed at scale and they have fun helping other parishioners move with the other sons and young dads, it's a good time and they get pizza and appreciation and also it can impress girls.

Miracle: Man Successfully Drives Across Town Even Though His Wife Wasn’t There To Provide Helpful Safe Driving Tips buff.ly/XoDYdRl

There comes a point in every boy's life when he realizes he's stronger than his mother. There's nothing she can physically do to stop him from doing anything. He knows it. She knows it. This is why the shadow of the father must always be looming behind the mother, backing up her authority. It's also why so many single mothers fail their sons.

Bitchy whiny men are behaving badly because we convinced other men to stop punching them.

Ladies, having babies is a longevity drug Women who give birth after forty are FOUR TIMES more likely to live to 100

BREAKING: 5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak. The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while handling samples. A mask mandate has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk. Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified. This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure. 200 people are under observation.

I can’t stop thinking about how every time these studies get brought up, people dismiss them saying stuff like “they couldn’t possibly be having good sex if they never do anything outside marriage” or “well it’s self reported so it doesn’t count” or my favorite “they are all just lying”. The main reason people think this (besides the urge the world has to defame marriage in general) is that those of us in good, faithful, fabulous love-life marriages don’t go around talking about it. We don’t share it on the internet. We don’t make podcasts talking about it. Because sex in marriage is sacred, private, and holy. There’s a place for discussing it in person, with trusted friends or mentors, but in general it’s very hush hush. Again, not because it’s BAD or we have dead bedrooms, but because it’s PRIVATE. So of course people are gonna say “they are just lying”. Chances are they don’t know about all the good, on fire marriages around them cause we don’t talk about it in public.