LJ Herman is a former editor at Love What Matters and lives in Colorado. LJ is a concert, ticket and technology enthusiast. He has seen the Dave Mathews Band over one hundred times and counting.
‘I’m upstairs doing my hair and he comes to the bottom of the stairs and says, ‘BABE! Someone is at the door for you!’: Woman overcomes toxic marriage to find new love
“Of course I roll my eyes because I inconveniently had to pause curling my hair… and then I came down to this.”
‘You are phenomenal. Never give up. You can do this.’ I realized my student’s mother took the time to write on his pencils. I asked him if he would mind showing me the rest of them.
“I took the pencils he handed me. When I was sharpening them, I noticed writing on a few of them.”
‘Mom’s pray on the couch late at night when our kids are past curfew and not answering our texts.’ Mother’s perspective on how her faith has changed since having children
“How Moms Pray…”
‘That’s when I, of course, changed our status from ‘married’ to ‘It’s complicated.’: Wife requests $1,000 dollars for ‘wife services,’ but husband’s hilarious reply is perfect
“The money request sent to Lance for ‘wife services’ was an attempt to make him laugh. When he unexpectedly replied with his reasons for denial, it was on!”
‘Don’t waste your leftover candle wax! Make wax melts.’ Woman’s genius hack for the perfect DIY Halloween decoration
“I got so many from my burnt out candles.”
‘After a long day, a mother’s body is exhausted, but it is her mind that suffers the most. The mental load of it all. Remembering to do it all. Worrying about it all.’
“We all know you are the glue that holds it all together, even if some days it drives you nuts to be it.”
‘We received a phone call from the teacher. Parents were complaining about our daughter. It was clear it was my best friend.’: Autism mom says it’s not a ‘disturbance’ but an ‘opportunity to teach’
“She demanded Chloe be removed and sent to an alternative school with ‘those kids.'”
‘I couldn’t help but overhear their conversation. The woman shared that her grandmother had a son. He died immediately after he was born. Someone took photographs to show her later – because they knew she’d never get to see him.’
“I realize I eavesdropped a bit more than I intended. But when you’ve lost a baby – these moments have a way of finding you.”
‘Marriage doesn’t always look this pretty beyond the altar. But on the day you said ‘I do,’ how could you imagine anything less?’
“You say the words. You mean the words. But you want to get to the good stuff. The party. The wedding night. You don’t process how those words, should you be faced with them, will completely change your life.”
She said, ‘NO. You’re going to go sit down and enjoy your dinner, and I will be there to sit with her!’
“I went to find our waitress to ask if she could please bring my food out in a To-go box because we were going out to sit in the car…”