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What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Karen. Many times reading the newspaper articles about parents, or caretakers that have done a child wrong by abusing them, leaving them locked in a steaming hot vehicle, or shaking them within . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Rachel. You know how sometimes we have to force ourselves to do things we know are good for us? Maybe for you, it's forcing yourself to go to the gym. Maybe it means forcing yourself to cook . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by an anonymous reader. In the fall of my sophomore year of college, my father sent me a Facebook message letting me know that he had cheated on my mother with another woman. I sat in the . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by MMS. I want you to know my husband did not set out to become an addict. He thought he was doing the right thing. He was experiencing severe knee pain, so he went to his primary care doctor. . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is written by Jenn M. Jackson from Water Cooler Convos.    I Kiss My Sons Last month we celebrated “Christmas Sunday.” For most Christians, it is the Sunday that entails mini-reunions at church, big . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Shannon.   What I want you to know is that I am a single mother by choice. I adopted my daughter from foster care and I’m hoping to bring another child into our family in the . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by EJS. I’ve been a “missionary” since 2005. I’ve been involved in evangelism, medical ministry, child care ministry, literacy, education, women’s co-operatives, and I could continue; but I . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Becky Ketarkus. Large families aren't freaks, and I'm no saint. When people ask me how many children I have, and I answer, the reaction is always the same...open mouthed shock. I'm 34, and . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Maralee Bradley. Just a year into my young marriage my husband and I received an infertility diagnosis. In some ways it was devastating, but we also felt confident that we were supposed to . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Jen McManus. I rock the stay-at-home thing. Love my kiddos, 3 who came the natural way and 2 foster babies that were reunited with biological family.. I love to work out, play outside, eat . . .