myTakes: Family & Friends

Dear past me, I know it's been a while, but it's because I've been trying to grow and get better. And, I know things are hard for you right now.. no matter how hard you try, you just can't seem to make mom happy. I know...

When people think of divorce, they often think about it affecting the couple or the couples families and children if they have them, but divorce can also have a strong impact on ones friendship circle, especially if the...

Note: Please read everything before commenting 1. They'll push their straight agenda onto their kids! Almost every heterosexual couple WILL assume that their child is straight, because they are. Even as babies, they will...

Inevitably in most long term friendships, there will come a point where your friend will find that they are in such a place where they feel as though they are going through hell. It could be the death of a beloved family...

A family secret is one in which certain members of the family decide that either others cannot handle the truth, or they feel like they are protecting the family name by not disclosing information, and/or they want to...

The Roles -Roles for a Women- -Cook -Bake -Clean -Care for kids if they have them -Teach their kids (Home-school them) -Welcome their Husband -Make shopping lists -Go shopping -Being a good Wife and Mom -Make her Husband...

Don't even get me started on that friend who just invited me somewhere last minute..... Hey guys it's Tadie back at it again with a Mytake. I know it's been a while but I just haven't had a spark of inspiration. I thought...

Everyone is always so busy that a lot of people tend to only see family a couple times a year in earnest for big events which is especially true if you live all around the country or even the world. But you've got to...

Hey everyone, I'm going to tell you all why I won't reproduce, and believe me it isn't one of those feminist agendas. I always thought I'd have children but the logical thing I've come to is that I shouldn't, and here's...

If you want to know if your significant others family hates you, try asking one of my good friends. In the middle of the ceremony, she was asked to leave her fiances father's funeral because his sisters, screaming,...

For the longest time, I have been holding on to the past. Yes I did some things I was not proud of in and ended up ruining some friendships with my own hands. I even humiliated myself making fake accounts to reach out to...

Strict parents cause their children to be more troubling, despite the intentions. It has the opposite effect. 1. You've Mastered Lying and Sneaking Around After a lot of practice, lying to their face becomes a piece of...

Years back, just a few days after I was diagnosed with a chronic illness, and I was stressing out about it and telling a friend all the ways my life would have to change and all the things I was dealing with, her response...

This time. 20 minutes before, Last year. I was sitting in my living room, watching Spider Man 2 with Toby maguire (boyfriend's choice) unknown to the phone call I was about to have. One that changed me. My mum had died....

Motherhood has a certain image in American media. We picture mothers to be selfless, kind, thoughtful women that cater to their children hand and foot. Mothers are the people we think of when we are sick or hurt, when we...

Until recently, Vikings were portrayed as dumb, brutal rapists, and villains. None of that is true. Half of viking warriors were women. Another myth is that women had no rights. Again, not true. Men couldn’t even touch a...