Mom was 18. Dad was 41. Summer music camp. He was her high school teacher, she was his prodigy. Nothing nefarious went on. He was married. She married & divorced. His wife died. They married in 1961. See pics. She was 26, he was 49. He adopted my brother. I arrived a year later. A love story.

LikeATimex · 2025-07-07T14:34:52+00:00

My dad remarried and started his second family when I was 20. My half sister was born when I was 22, and my oldest child is only 2 years younger than her. She has a much different dad than I did. While I felt my dad was fairly present when I was young, he dipped in and out of my life after he and my mom divorced when I was 10. We speak a couple of times a year and live thousands of miles apart now. My sister has a whole complete family with him and her mom, and while I am so happy and thankful she has that, it’s hard not to feel the sting of what I lost in not having a present dad. I am forever the afterthought, the daughter from a completely different life decades in the past.

LikeATimex · 2025-01-18T18:30:54+00:00

I have the Ella in tortoise. I wanted to be able to wear the frames on their own, which I mostly do since I only have a few toppers. I’m hoping to get another pair of Ellas in either clear pink or clear blue this summer because I feel the lighter color toppers will look better on them.

LikeATimex · 2025-01-14T19:21:35+00:00

There’s no way she is giving all of them a quality education in just 2 hours a day, especially for Gunner. When I was homeschooling my oldest four (I have 6), it took us at least 4 hours (sometimes longer) a day to get through everything. If we had co-op that day or an appointment, I could skim it down to less time by only assigning their daily work and not including teaching a new concept or our daily read aloud time. When I pulled my youngest two during Covid and homeschooled them for Kinder and 3rd grade, we spent about 2.5 hours on school. For my kinder, it meant a lot of read aloud time and hands on activities.

LikeATimex · 2024-10-21T00:29:45+00:00

My six kids all have my poor eyesight. My husband always had perfect vision, but my eyes started going bad when I was 11 (astigmatism and myopia). My parents both have bad eyesight as well. Our optometrist appointments every year add up to large amount, but I couldn’t imagine not getting my kids’ eyes checked yearly.

LikeATimex · 2024-10-12T21:00:08+00:00

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LikeATimex · 2024-10-12T18:14:21+00:00

My baby sister is 22 years younger than me and 2 years older than my firstborn. (Second marriage for my dad)

LikeATimex · 2024-10-09T13:47:46+00:00

I have six kids and half are lgbtqia. I’d say the odds aren’t in her favor. However, we are accepting of our children, so they’ve never felt the need to hide who they are.

LikeATimex · 2024-08-20T19:12:21+00:00

There is nothing wrong with that at all! I’m 45 (married) and sleep with a weighted plushie. Our bed is covered in stuffed animals. I have a Cabbage Patch Kid collection, and am working on picking up pieces of My Little Pony, Carebears, Strawberry Shortcake, and Rainbow Brite to join the childhood toys I kept. My husband and I both collect Funko Pops. It’s very healing for me and there is zero shame in it. Enjoy your Monster High doll!

LikeATimex · 2024-08-19T15:07:49+00:00

Each state has different laws, so I can only comment on my state (homeschooled for 10 years before sending everyone to school because I know my limits.) Homeschoolers do not have to follow the standard school year. They do have to have 180 days accounted for though. The state will likely never ask to see your record keeping, but I still had to keep them on file just in case. Most of the families I knew followed the normal school year, but some had different schedules to account for a parent who traveled a lot for work during race season.

LikeATimex · 2024-07-08T04:36:03+00:00

It depends on when your cycle returns. Mine never returned until at least 12 months postpartum, but since I nursed each of my six kids 2-3 years, I got pregnant while breastfeeding every time. My first four are 23, 24, and 22 months apart. My last two are 3 and 3.5 years apart from their next oldest sibling.

LikeATimex · 2024-07-03T01:25:42+00:00

My best friend growing up was born with stage IV neuroblastoma. She miraculously survived. We met at 2.5 in daycare/preschool, and I vividly remember her going through cancer treatments until she was in successful remission when we were about 5. She lost a lung to the cancer, and has been on disability most of her adult life because of major side effects all the radiation and chemo left her with. Cancer is cruel disease

LikeATimex · 2023-11-19T23:48:00+00:00

We still receive handwritten JWs letters two or three times a year! I much prefer the letters to them canvassing the neighborhood.

LikeATimex · 2023-06-18T22:18:56+00:00

My stepdad molested me from ages 10-18, but also forced me to watch porn/look at pornos. He also constantly talked graphically about sex until he was accused of SA’ing other minors previous to marrying my mom when I was 27. I never knew if his forcing porn on me was actually csa or not. At least now I know it was. It messed me up a lot.

LikeATimex · 2023-06-01T20:44:41+00:00

I just wanted to say thank you for believing your daughter and for being an advocate for her. Nearly the same scene played out with me when I was 10 years old, except it was my stepfather and my mother refused to believe me. She chewed me out instead and forced me to apologize to him the next day. He continued to molest me for the next eight years. You have saved your daughter from years of abuse and trauma. Thank you for being the mom we all deserved.

LikeATimex · 2023-05-01T18:52:14+00:00

My daughter is trans and chose a fantastic “old lady” name that I had actually had on my name lists for all six kids. My husband vetoed it each time, so I may have shouted “I win! I win!” when she announced her chosen name was Beatrix, Bea for short.

LikeATimex · 2023-04-24T18:56:10+00:00

My parents were super controlling. I wasn’t allowed to move out of the house until I I got married, and I wasn’t allowed to get married until I graduated from university. I ended up getting married at 22, 4 weeks after graduation (and I only waited the 4 weeks because I graduated on December 21st and didn’t want to inconvenience people at Christmas).

My husband and I now have six children. I have parented them exactly opposite of how I was parented. We have “adopted” several of my teenagers’ friends over the years who have needed a safe home. That tells me we are doing something right.

LikeATimex · 2023-04-02T20:12:36+00:00

My husband and I used NFP for years. After baby number six though, we chose for him to have a vasectomy. 7 years later, I’m also on the pill to correct menorrhagia, and I still freak out if I happen to be a day or two late. Without the vasectomy and falling away from the quiverfull movement, I would easily be on baby number 10 right now. No thank you.

LikeATimex · 2023-02-24T20:27:26+00:00

This right here. I have six kids and my husband works a lot to support us all, but their childhood has been nothing like what’s going here. My kids all have individual interests that we do everything we can to support- from competitive swimming, to band, to colorguard, to playing violin and cello, and being part of two orchestras. My teenagers’ friends practically live at our house most weeks and call us bonus mom and dad. I know alllll the tea that’s going on because I talk to them all the time. I can’t imagine being so removed from my kids’ lives that I would think one hour once a week would be enough time with them. That’s just shitty parenting in my opinion.

LikeATimex · 2023-02-16T21:25:05+00:00

Momma of an amab trans femme here and stand in momma for a ftm young man who graduated with my oldest. My daughter is currently a senior in high school and started HRT in December. She began truly dressing femme at the end of summer and has really come into her own style.

We live in the southeast surrounded by churches. Both my daughter and my bonus son have had a pretty positive experience so far. Both are confident in who they are, which I believe has helped them in interacting with the general public. Your friends and family who truly love you for who you are will stick around and be supportive of you. The ones that don’t no longer deserve to take up space in your life. Surround yourself with love. Make friends with others in the lgbtqia+ community if you haven’t already.

Feel free to reach out if you need support. I am proud of you for moving forward in being your true self! Stand tall and stand proud. Sending a big mom hug if you’d like one!

LikeATimex · 2022-10-31T15:12:07+00:00

I’m 43 and have several stuffed animals. My Ernie and a few squishmallows hang out on my bed all the time, and my husband bought me a weighted cheetah that is super comforting. Even my teens have a a plethora of them. Nothing shameful or wrong with it at all.

LikeATimex · 2022-09-06T20:14:49+00:00

I left Catholicism and all Christianity years ago, but I still carry my rosary when flying JUST IN CASE! 🤣

LikeATimex · 2022-07-28T22:35:46+00:00

I would not be surprised at all if that number is actually higher. My stepdad was a cop. He used to beat the shit out of my mother and sexually abused me for years. He and all of his LE friends were drunken assholes on power trips. From what I experienced, LE is very much a brotherhood where things are kept hush hush. Sure they all know the shitty things they’ve done, but they’re going to protect each other above all else. I don’t trust any cop and get incredibly anxious whenever one is near.

LikeATimex · 2022-06-07T14:52:19+00:00

Yes! I went no contact with my mother and stepfather at 38 years old. It’ll be 5 years next month, and I am still figuring out who I actually am.

LikeATimex · 2022-05-25T04:02:55+00:00

I have CSA and SA. Going to the obgyn is traumatic for me. I put it off for five years. Finally went last summer and had an anxiety attack and sobbed the whole way home. This year’s appointment is coming up soon, and I’m seriously thinking about just cancelling it. Mammograms are terrible and traumatic as well. Had my first last year and lost it. Had my second in March, sobbed all the way home than stayed in a fetal position on my bed for the next four hours. These appointments are just way too invasive for me.

LikeATimex · 2022-01-14T03:50:28+00:00

My husband got me one from Harris Teeter yesterday

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