Thrive As You

The thing about being married is that you forget how fun breakups are.  Kind of like a long married couple can forget how much fun dating can be.  But there's a crushing flip side to the "fun."  A few months removed from a devastating breakup and a thousand conversations and therapy sessions later, I'm starting to realize what is truly eating me about all of this. The broken promise. It's not just David that has done this to me.  No, I have a friend who refers to "the list of men" in my life, and while there haven't been many, they all have a common theme. The broken promise. Yes David made the big promises  to me.  "I will always love you."  "I will always be here for you."  "I will marry you and be your partner until the end of my days."  "You have changed my life and ruined me for good.  I will never be the same." "I don't want to spend another day of my life without you."  "You h...

This is one of those things that is just weighing heavy on my heart. Yesterday was my peep's  first day back at school and so I ran errands from 8am-3pm.  No kidding.  One of those stops was to my fave store ever, TJ Maxx .  While hustling through the store (I was on a mission) a mom and her 3-4 year old toddler were shopping too. And he was SCREAMING. Not like "kinda fussy." Full blown 110% temper tantrum SCREAMING. It was SO ANNOYING!  In fact, it was giving me a headache!!!!! So? There weren't many people in the store but what I can tell you is this.  EVERYONE in the store was talking about this mom and her screaming kid. Cuz my assumption is, the mom was DEFINITELY enjoying it. Overhead two older ladies after giving each other "the look,"  (you know the one) "Well, we certainly didn't allow our kids to act that way now did we?" Then we got into checkout and I was one person removed from the mom and the still screaming ch...