DekiArt/E+/Getty Images When my mom was pregnant, she and my dad couldn’t seem to come to a consensus on what I should be named. My mom wanted Danielle or Grace while my dad was gunning hard for Sharon or Brenda. (It was the ’80s.) Fortunately, my great-grandma suggested “Jamie,” which she’d apparently heard on “one...
Instagram / @mindsetmentress It can be easy to let your parents’ opinions influence your life, whether you fully realize it or not. Yes, even when you have kids of your own — after all, the little voice in the back of your head probably learned a thing or two from the people that raised you....
TikTok / @livschreiber Our culture doesn’t exactly make aging “fun.” Getting older is stigmatized, and if you can’t stop it with diets, face lifts, or chemical peels, well, you might as well just accept it. Got a few wrinkles? Well, you’re old now. Act like it! It can be difficult to watch the older people...
TikTok/Wendy Gimpel The stereotype of the meddling, malicious mother-in-law dates back centuries — arguably to ancient Rome. A mainstay of sitcoms and dramas alike, she is a calculating and/or hysterical figure who not only inserts herself where she doesn’t belong but is convinced that you — her daughter- or son-in-law — is never really good...