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Celebrating Mother's Day When Your Mom Has Passed Away
Losing Your Mom If you have lost your mom, it's difficult enough, but it's even harder when her special day comes around. I know how it feels. I lost my mother. The first year was the worst. I remember how lost I felt. I just couldn't understand why she had to die when so many other people I knew still had their mothers.
By Janis Masyk-Jackson16 days ago in Families
Wise~Guys
— Look Behind what's in Front of You ~ Make Good Choices — Hey, So how you Doin'..! Made~Men — Mobster Movies romanticise a distinctive, elegant appearance, impeccable attire style, along with the 'Families' expressive lingo. Making their 'Bones' gave them Panache — with vintage fedoras, tailored pin-striped suits, mirror-polished wing-tip shoes adorned with tassels; with their 'Gun Moll' gorgeous dates on their arms.
By Jay Kantor3 months ago in Families
Christmas Abroad: Celebrating the Holidays Without Family
I moved to South Korea in 2017. I was twenty-two years old and excited to start my career as an English Second Language Teacher. With a Bachelor's degree and six hundred dollars in my bank account, I set off for Busan.
By Kera Hollow4 months ago in Families
~Suits~
~ Dress-Code ~ Dress for Success Progressions ~ Twin, Lar, and I worked after school at Kinney Shoe Stores; Best Shoe-Dogs, ever. At the time mandatory to wear complete suits-ties: Fell in love with the cute cashier; lesson learned don't play in your own backyard! Whew, a lot of gabby-girls flowed through all day - shoulda stayed in that biz...!
By Jay Kantor6 months ago in Families
Collections
Themed story collections curated by the Vocal moderators.
Kids Say the Darndest Things
The unfiltered truths from the fruits of our loins. And the creepiest things they've ever said. Help?
Parenting Wars
Do or do not - there is no try. The ins and outs of one of the most difficult jobs on earth: parenting.
Nature vs. Nurture
What plays into our humanity? Nature vs. Nurture – how two factors affect one individual.
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Most recently published stories in Families.
Your Health, Your Right: How to Live Better Every Day. AI-Generated.
This year, as communities across the globe mark the occasion, the United Arab Emirates stands as a shining example of a nation that has taken that principle seriously. From the bustling streets of Dubai to the calm corniche of Abu Dhabi, both UAE nationals and the millions of expatriates who call this country home have reason to feel protected. The UAE's mandatory health insurance framework — one of the most comprehensive in the region — ensures that residents, regardless of nationality or income, have access to medical care when they need it most. Platforms like Shory have made navigating this landscape significantly easier, allowing residents to compare, understand, and access health insurance coverage in a straightforward, transparent way — removing the confusion that once kept many people, particularly new expats, from getting adequately covered. It is a quiet but powerful safety net, one that transforms World Health Day from a symbolic celebration into a lived reality for people from over 200 nationalities sharing this remarkable land. Safeguarding health here is not left to chance; it is written into policy, backed by infrastructure, and felt in every clinic visit, every emergency room, every routine check-up that catches something before it becomes something worse.
By Sarath Menonabout an hour ago in Families
Separate Bedrooms
The Controversial Choice That Saved Our Relationship THE SECRET NOBODY TALKS ABOUT 🤫 My husband Daniel and I have slept in separate bedrooms for four years, and when people learn this they react with a mixture of concern, judgment, and morbid curiosity that reveals how deeply the cultural assumption that married couples must share a bed is embedded in our collective understanding of what marriage means, because sleeping separately is associated in most people's minds with relationship failure, with the cold war stage of dying marriages where physical distance reflects emotional distance and where the retreat to separate rooms is a prelim to the retreat to separate lives. But our experience has been the opposite of this assumption: separate bedrooms have produced more intimacy, better communication, improved physical affection, and dramatically better individual health than shared sleeping ever provided, and the decision which initially felt like a concession to failure has proven to be one of the most relationship-enhancing choices we have ever made 🏠💕
By The Curious Writerabout 5 hours ago in Families
Marriage
How Losing Everything Revealed What We Actually Had THE MORNING WE LOST IT ALL 📉 The phone call came at 7:43 AM on a Wednesday morning while my husband Robert and I were eating breakfast with our two children who were arguing about whose turn it was to use the iPad, and the normalcy of this scene, the cereal bowls and the sibling bickering and the coffee growing cold while I refereed, made what followed feel like it was happening to someone else in a movie I was watching rather than in my actual kitchen in my actual life, because Robert's business partner called to inform him that their construction company was insolvent, that the bank was calling their loans immediately, that their largest client had filed a lawsuit for breach of contract, and that the personal guarantees Robert had signed on the business loans meant that our family was liable for approximately 1.7 million dollars in debt that the company could not pay, and in the approximately four minutes of that phone call our financial life which had been comfortable and secure and built on fifteen years of hard work and careful planning collapsed into a crater so deep that climbing out seemed not just difficult but genuinely impossible 📞😰
By The Curious Writerabout 5 hours ago in Families
We Promised Forever, But War Chose Otherwise
The first time Ayaan saw Zoya, the world was still quiet. It was a late afternoon in their small town, where the sun melted softly into the hills and the call to prayer echoed like a gentle reminder of peace. Zoya stood near the old bookstore, her fingers tracing the spine of a worn novel, her eyes lost in another world. Ayaan didn’t know then that she would become his entire world.
By Truth words about 13 hours ago in Families
The culture and laws behind the choice for family names
When my wife and I filed for our marriage certificate in 2002, the civil office clerk asked her if she wanted to keep her family name or take mine. We exchanged a second-long glance and then she ticked under my surname.
By Aurel Stratanabout 15 hours ago in Families
10 Peaceful Destinations to Travel This Summer Vacation from the UAE. AI-Generated.
The options are infinite, making it harder to decide which is the best from the UAE. We will help you to choose by suggesting 10 peaceful destinations to travel to this summer vacation from the UAE, highlighting flight details, temperatures in summer, visa information for UAE residents, and activities travelers often recommend.
By Travnook Travel & Tourismabout 20 hours ago in Families
The Voicemail My Son Left
Seven Words That Became My Reason to Breathe THE MESSAGE I ALMOST DELETED 😢 My son Marcus left for his second deployment to Afghanistan on a Tuesday morning in March, and somewhere between the airport and the military transport that would carry him into a war zone he called my phone knowing I would not answer because I had told him the night before that I could not bear to say goodbye again because the first deployment had nearly destroyed me and I did not have the emotional reserves for another farewell that might be the last, and so he called knowing the call would go to voicemail and he left a message that I did not listen to for three days because seeing his name on my missed calls made my chest constrict with the specific dread that military families carry constantly, the awareness that every phone call could be the one that changes everything, and when I finally gathered the courage to press play his voice filled my kitchen with seven words that became the most important sentence I have ever heard: "Mom, I'm brave because you were first" 💔
By The Curious Writera day ago in Families
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