When things go wrong, you might just want to curl up in a ball and cry. You’re broken and don’t think you can or want to go on. There’s a chance that your partner cheated on you, or you lost your job. You can not imagine how things could ever get better because they are so bad right now. This easy story can help. It shows how to deal with problems in the best way and how we can use problems, failures, and other bad things that happen to us to become better people. One day, a young woman went…
Author: World Wide
I got married to a homeless woman just to make my parents mad… What I saw after a month made me speechless. They would remind me all the time that I was 34 years old and still not married. They put me in touch with all the good-looking people they knew because they wanted me to get married and have kids. It didn’t end there, though. Finally, they told me that I wouldn’t get any of their money if I wasn’t married by the time I turned 35. I only had a few months to meet their due date. Once,…
I couldn’t speak when my stepdaughter asked me to a restaurant and it was time to pay the bill. I hadn’t heard from my stepdaughter, Hyacinth, in what felt like forever, so when she invited me to dinner, I thought maybe this would be the day we made amends. But I couldn’t even begin to imagine the surprise she had in store for me at that dinner. My name is Rufus, I am fifty years old, and I have accumulated a great deal of life experience. My life has been pretty steady, maybe too steady. I work in a quiet…
Following years of a marriage in which Mike was obsessed with money and personal belongings, Nicole surprises everyone by voluntarily giving up everything during their divorce. Nicole’s laughing quietly indicates a carefully thought-out plan that is about to come to fruition as Mike basks in what he perceives to be his victorious “win.” Mike has not yet realized that Nicole’s secret plan is about to be implemented. I looked like the stereotypical picture of a defeated ex-wife as I left the lawyer’s office, my shoulders dropped and my face blank. The rain was falling heavily, and the overcast sky complemented…
While Audrey’s younger sister received $50 annually, Audrey’s parents said they were unable to provide her with birthday presents for three years. Audrey brought a cake to a family get-together the day after her seventeenth birthday, only to learn a startling fact that altered everything. I gazed at my mobile device. My mother sent me a brief but direct text: “This year, we are unable to buy you a present. I’m sorry, honey. I refrained from crying. To be honest, I wasn’t even shocked. For the past three years, nothing has changed. No presents or preferential treatment for me.…
I was completely taken aback when I came through the door, the sound of my luggage wheels reverberating off the walls of the corridor. Our living room appeared to have been hit by a tornado. Dishes were heaped in the sink, toys were scattered all over the floor, and what? A banana on the couch that has turned black? My heart fell. After a long week of meetings throughout the state, this was the last thing I needed. All I wanted was to return home to my bed, my spouse, and my kids. to return home to a tidy place.…
Before discovering one day that the box containing the heritage jewels her late mother left her is empty, Rachel treasures it. After hearing her husband’s confession, Rachel learns that’s only half the story. Everything comes together when she sees her mother’s earrings on someone else. Now That morning, I bought milk, chicken, and raspberries from the grocery. It was a strange combination, but I needed it. The milk for cereal and coffee, the chicken for dinner today, and the raspberries for my husband’s favorite white chocolate and raspberry muffins. I left the shop with a reality I didn’t know…
Rather of happily organizing weddings together, my two engaged daughters were always arguing. But I realized I had missed the symptoms of what was actually going on in our home when I saw my youngest daughter’s wedding dress torn and my stepdaughter standing over it crying. My two children are my stepdaughter Christine (age 23) and my biological daughter Hannah (age 22). After my husband died years ago, they grew up together, and I’ve always done my best to keep our blended family together. Both girls were still living with me at home last year, for the most part. They…
I anticipated conflict when I went to see my ailing mother-in-law to give my weary husband a respite. However, I couldn’t have been prepared for what I discovered. She wasn’t even ill. And my world fell apart when she told me the truth. Because where had Jacob gone if he wasn’t spending every night with her? How could that be? I pondered. Jacob had been coming here every night. That’s what he told me, anyway. But I had a horrifying conclusion as I looked at my mother-in-law, who was in wonderful health. There was a Jacob and I have been…
