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“Parenthood wasn’t about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own needs for someone else’s. When you loved your kids, you’d give up everything to keep them safe and make them happy, and you didn’t care about the other things, the ones that went away.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

tags: parenthood

10 likes

“Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: dating, greed, ideal-lover, infidelity, love, monogamy, mr-right, perfection, polygamy, relationships

12 likes

“We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn't that how we knew we were parents?”
― The Odd Life of Timothy Green

tags: parenthood, repentance

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“Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had a kid... I was still me, with all my holes and problems and questions - only now I was also exhuasted and had a lot more laundry to do.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

tags: laundry, motherhood, parenthood

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“Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy