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 Samantha. My husband of 2 years struggles with pornography as an addiction. What I want you to know, is that if you have a partner who struggles with this addiction as well, you are not . . .
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What i want you to know: I am 65 and still searching for my birth family
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 Nancy Stetson . I was adopted into a wonderful family. My dad was a doctor and knew my birth right mom. Met her in the hospital and I turned out to be a private adoption. I did have a great life . . .
What i want you to know about looking older than your age
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. It seems really commonplace to bash a female celebrity for looking old. People will give a self-satisfied smile as they point to a picture of Blake Lively or Megan Fox in a . . .
What i want you to know about living through a war
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 Vesna. I was nine when a war broke out in my country. For those first nine years of my life, my childhood was your middle-class picture-perfect: my parents had good jobs, I played with my . . .
What i want you to know: loving a drug-addicted brother
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 Theresa. I would say I live in a middle class life. I am a fifth grade teacher and my husband is a power plant operator. I have four healthy happy children with a fifth on the way. From time to . . .
what i want you to know about having parents who were adopted
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 Annie Berical. I am the child of adopted parents. That's right: both of my parents were adopted as babies by separate families, grew up, met each other, and bonded (I imagine) over their . . .
What i want you to know: There is nothing sexy about an eating disorder
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 Katherine. There is nothing sexy about eating disorders. You will never have the right curves. The weight will never be lost from the correct areas. The number on the scale will never be . . .
what i want you to know about Aspergers syndrome
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 Kerry. I want you to know that sometimes I wish my other child had Asperger’s too. I like it that my son loves rules and wants to do the right thing. Even as a newborn, he had the same . . .
What I want you to know about being a black middle-class suburban mom
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 Micky Jones. I am in your tribe. And I am on the outside of your tribalism*. I am seen. And I am unseen. I’ve lived nearly my entire life as the lone black girl amongst my friends. I am the daughter . . .
What I want you to know about being a young black man in America.
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 Wesley Hall. Man, I'm just glad I had a mom who gave me the realness from a young age. I can remember thinking she was so stuck in the past for telling me that I couldn't do or say or wear certain . . .
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