~ By an Anonymous Contributor There’s been this thing I’ve been trying to change in my husband for several years. I don’t tell anyone about it because I don’t want to dishonor or embarrass him. This is a closed group and I don’t know any of you personally so I’ll share. He took up chewing […]
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His Little Angel
~ By an Anonymous Contributor My husband and I have been married 21 years. I had always thought we had a wonderful marriage, that is, for the first half of it. Then things began to happen. We have seven children whom we love very much, but this was not enough to hold our marriage together. […]
Continue readingWhy Femininity is Irreplaceable
“Why didn’t you tell me about princesses?” This question came from the young cousin of my granddaughter a few years ago. She was being raised by her young parents to be a tomboy. No pink was allowed in her life, and she was to develop the tough masculine traits of a modern, independent woman that […]
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~ By an Anonymous Contributor My husband had a very insecure childhood. Consequently, he grew up desperately trying to prove himself a man, yet so afraid of marriage and women that he didn’t marry until he was thirty. I, too, was insecure and didn’t know how to be a woman. I tried to treat him […]
Continue readingMy Little Speech—Acceptance
~ By an Anonymous Contributor Trying to tell my husband that I accepted him and that I admired him for standing up and sticking to his convictions was a very hard thing for me to come out with. First of all, I am not the kind of person to say something like this, and secondly, […]
Continue readingFascinating Womanhood Renews a Man
~ By an Anonymous Contributor About three years ago, my husband had a serious cancer surgery and extensive cobalt treatment. It left his face scarred and changed. Less than a year later, he was involved in a horrible car accident that broke his back, injured his spine, and scarred his face even more. For six […]
Continue readingAdmiring a Son
~ By an Anonymous Contributor My success story is quite different. I have five lovely children, four of them are girls. My son, age 8 ½ is my success story. Doug has had many health problems since he was a small baby. His main ones are thyroid and blood deficiencies and allergies. At age 8 […]
Continue readingA Single Career Girl Speaks
~ By an Anonymous Contributor All the glamour the world has given to the women’s movement isn’t there that much. Our nations working world, especially at the executive level, is negative-oriented rather than positive or creative oriented. This is due in part to high inflation, excessive government control, excessive litigation, which has driven insurance rates […]
Continue readingDear Cinderella
By Dixie Andelin Forsyth, 7/12/20 Dear Cinderella, I know your life is hard. Seems like you rarely get a break, and you’re discouraged. Maybe you’ve wondered why you should keep trying. In your weakest moments (we all have them), perhaps you’ve even felt angry and told yourself you deserve better, that your stepmother and stepsisters […]
Continue readingFrom Disaster to Peace
~ By an Anonymous Contributor Our household used to be a real disaster area a few weeks back. When my husband walked in the door, the older children were fighting, the baby was screaming to eat, and I certainly wasn’t the most pleasant thing he would set eyes on! Things have really changed! We all […]
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