Carol Yepes/Getty Images I have been a citrus girl ever since I was 17 years old. Satsuma oil from The Body Shop specifically, but really anything that made my skin smell like an orange rind on Christmas morning. If you were standing close to me and I had just dipped my whole self into a vat of my favorite body oil, the air would smell like you had just peeled a fresh clementine. That was me before perimenopause. Now when I apply my Satsuma body oil, it smells… acidic, like a rotted orange. And I’m trying not to make the...
Husband Gives All Green Flags When This Gender Reveal Went Wrong
TikTok / @duccilou Sometimes, gender reveals just… don’t go the way you want ‘em to. Maybe you didn’t even know you wanted a certain gender until the cake or smoke or balloon shows up, and you suddenly realize that part of you was really expecting a different color. Gender disappointment isn’t uncommon. But, when this gender reveal went wrong in more ways than one, a husband showed all the green flags. Ducci and her husband Travis were filming their gender reveal, and things started to go haywire mere seconds in when the glass Travis was using the cut the reveal...
This Girl Guiding Her Family Through The Airport Is A Reminder To Let Kids Try
Instagram A friend recently asked me if I ever look at my kids and think, “You would never survive out in the wild?” I quickly laughed and replied, “I’ve looked at my children and thought they wouldn’t have survived the early-’90s.” It’s not that they’re completely incapable, but my kids are privileged and sheltered, and while they’re not entirely helpless they know they can rely on their dad and me to help them get through just about anything. And that’s the way it should be at their ages. But sometimes I wonder how I can help teach them the best...
What Is A Micro-Break In A Marriage?
Instagram Ending any relationship, especially a marriage or a commitment to a long-term partner, is hard and never taken lightly. But while such relationships may sometimes end with a cataclysmic bang, more often than not that big event is the result of many, many smaller events that led to something far more dramatic. In a recent post, Instagram creator Abby Eckel (@abbyeckel) explained the concept of “microbreaks” as being the main cause of why some relationships eventually crumble. “Microbreaks in trust are what truly erode a relationship,” she begins. “It is very rarely the massive blowups like infidelity that are...