Sorry to hear of your troubles and I'm with you that it's so wrong when people say suicide is selfish - those are the people who have no personal experience with suicide (either themselves or someone they know/love). I have several (yes, several) extended family members who have committed suicide and a brother who has…

Tory Burch tote bag by the way - $195

This is great for travel as well as every day - carries a ton of stuff - lots of people now have it but if that doesn’t bother you, it’s a great deal.

Sorry that you're in this situation and find it hard to get out but glad to hear you say you got your voice back. I've been in toxic relationships and got out but look back now and wonder why I took it for so long. I wanted so badly to be loved and thought I'd never find it again so I just stuck with it. I hope you…

Amen!

Makes me want to meet her - good for you - make sure to thank her as often as you can (if you don't already) - it goes a long way (as a single mom I can attest to that!).

Doesn’t come across that way at all and thanks for the shout out. I am lucky enough to be able to afford a full time sitter (who also cleans, does laundry and basically keeps my life organized) and even I find it hard to juggle all the balls at once. I have many, many single mom friends who can’t afford full time help…

I am a daughter of parents who had this marriage and I will say - not to hurt you but hopefully to help you understand from someone who’s been through it - I think my life and those of my brothers and sisters would have been much better if she had left. I still to this day wonder why she didn’t do more to protect us.…

I now realized I wrote this as if he were the parent - clearly that's what my head was thinking!!! Probably because that's what he sounds like talking about it.

For him to think he deserves any credit for ‘saving’ her is just repugnant.

Exactly! Or the picture is taken in the mirror so is appearing backwards. Way to make a mountain out of a mole hill....

Weird part is that it was clearly all scripted - she was reading cue cards - so what she said had to be cleared by ABC to even get on the cue cards. I really like her but I think she's drinking the Kool Aid - maybe it's Kool Aid that comes with a load of money though - hope so for her sake.

I hear ya - I think most of the people who work feel the same way - at least all the people I know do.

Bonnie Raitt holds such a special place in my heart and I actually got to tell her that in person once. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 30 over 20 years ago (yes, I’m old) when no one that age got it (or at least no one knew about it). I had a lumpectomy which, at the time, was major surgery and I had…

I think if it's just habit and the only thing he/she knows is going out and sitting quietly, it will come naturally. And electronic entertainment goes a long way - I used to have a portable DVD player I brought with me so she can could watch Sesame Street - I got so much shit from people about it back then meanwhile I…

It can be boring as hell at times but honestly, most of the time it's great - the love you feel with your child is nothing I ever knew was possible to feel and that alone helps you get through the mundane stuff. You can work the kid into your life too - I am single parent in NYC so from very beginning we were at…

Yup - I just had surgery #4 and it had been several years since the last one so it was very involved - I will spare the internet the details but as a fellow sufferer you know what I mean. It’s been debilitating - years of taking 6 Advil every 3 hours for weeks at a time just to get out of bed (pain meds made my head…

Those of us who have adopted regularly use the phrase "Adoption is not for the faint of heart". It ain't an easy road turning your life over to the government to decide if you are fit to parent.

Great article - I’m a single adoptive mom and I get the craziest questions and comments from people - everyone wants to judge. One that bothers me a lot lately (although probably sounds like no biggie to others) is when traveling for business and everyone feels entitled to ask me who’s watching my child - even other…

My daughter was terribly bullied starting at age 7 - she’s quiet and shy and was the new kid and they saw a target so they got after her. She so wanted kids to like her that she didn’t say anything for ages to me. When it finally started to unfold I went to the teachers who said they hadn’t seen anything happen. I…