Category: Stories

Parenting is complicated, especially when exes and blended families are involved. Boundaries and past history can make seemingly simple requests feel impossible. Our Bright Side reader (Mary, 42) wrote to us to…

We received a letter from a reader facing an emotionally charged situation that many might find impossible to navigate. Eleanor, 38, has been asked by her narcissistic ex-husband to invite his 16-year-old…

Ever notice how some moments just stick with you? Not the picture-perfect ones, but the ones that shake you, crack you open a little. Those messy, complicated memories have a way of…

Hey everyone, I’m Caleb, and I’m 31 years old. This story is difficult to share, but I need to get it out there because perhaps someone else is making the same mistake…

I used to believe that family was the one thing you could trust to remain constant, that family was where you leaned when everything else felt too heavy. But grief changes the…

Let me be clear: I never wanted our relationship to feel transactional, but sometimes, you have to wonder if things are as balanced as they should be. My fiancé, Ben, and I?…

I am Sarah. I’m a mom to an eight-year-old boy named Leo. For the last two years, I have been raising him on my own. If you had asked me five years…

My wife was the kind of person who made everything feel possible. We’d stay up late in the kitchen, talking about our daughter Nina’s future, planning vacations we’d take when she turned…

It was four days before Christmas, and I was sitting in my mom’s living room, staring at the lights. She’d hung them too early. But that was her thing. Even when the…

I’ve always thought I had the perfect little family. You know, the kind you see in those Hallmark Christmas movies.My husband Hayden still leaves me silly love notes in my coffee mug…