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Becoming a parent may make you love your partner less

Becoming a parent may make you love your partner less

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Parenthood may put you off date night, but not necessarily for good Elena Odareeva / Alamy It may feel like the exhaustion of caring for a newborn leaves little room for romance. Now, researchers have found that people really do seem to love their partner less in the first year of parenthood – but there are ways to buffer against this. Prior studies suggest that relationship satisfaction tends to decline in the two years after having a baby, but these rarely account for the state of things before pregnancy. When Agnieszka Sorokowska at the University of Wrocław, Poland, started a family, she wanted to know how her relationship was set to change. “I got pregnant, and then I wrote the grant proposal to look at this,” she says. With her colleagues, Sorokowska recruited nearly 300 heterosexual couples without children who had been together for at least two years. Every six months, for at least two years, the participants completed surveys – independently of their partner – in which they ranked on a scale from 0 …

Being a “Dog Parent” Can Boost Happiness After Gray Divorce

Being a “Dog Parent” Can Boost Happiness After Gray Divorce

Published by Jenni Sidey

Gray divorce refers to couples 50 and older ending their marriages. Researchers Brown et al. found that the divorce rate for this age group doubled between 1990 and 2010. Today, nearly 40% of all divorces occur in this population. Every day in my clinical practice, my therapy dog Friede and I witness patients struggling with the myriad losses that so often accompany later-life divorce. Sadness, loneliness, and lack of connection with others contribute to physical and mental health issues like appetite and sleep disturbance, social isolation, depression, and anxiety. As their therapist, I am always looking for skills, tools, and interventions to offer them to help ease their pain and develop the life they seek. Kathleen, 60, divorced nine years ago and has struggled with lingering sadness, loneliness, and mild depression. She began therapy several months ago. She and my therapy dog, Friede, snuggled on the love seat in my office. She softly stroked Friede’s head, looked at me, smiled, and began. “The research-based findings about happiness you gave me a few sessions ago challenged …

Mom With A Fear Of Vomiting Makes Sick Child Sleep In Driveway

Mom With A Fear Of Vomiting Makes Sick Child Sleep In Driveway

Published by Jenni Sidey

Parenting is not glamorous, especially when a sick kid is involved. From barf to diaper blowouts, sick children and their fluids tend to get everywhere, and if that sort of stuff grosses you out as a parent, well … good luck.  One mom who claims to have emetophobia, an actual intense, anxiety-inducing fear of seeing or thinking about or experiencing vomit in any way, shared a video on social media of her sick child and husband snuggling in the driveway while she was safely ensconced in the house. Needless to say, it sparked a bit of outrage, with many people wondering if the fear was that bad, and how she was able to take the video in the first place. A mom with a fear of vomiting shared a video of her sick child sleeping in the driveway while she stayed in the house. In a recent TikTok post, mom influencer The Accidental Adult shared a video of her sick toddler lying down on what appears to be a makeshift bed with the caption, “POV: …

Boy Mom Does Not Get The Response She Intended After Sharing Video Of Photoshoot With Her Toddler

Boy Mom Does Not Get The Response She Intended After Sharing Video Of Photoshoot With Her Toddler

Published by Jenni Sidey

Boy mom culture gets a lot of criticism. Sure, you should take everything you see shared online with a grain of salt, but sometimes these boy moms share a little more than they should, and it comes with a whole lot of backlash. Such was the case for one boy mom in particular, who decided to share the photoshoot she had for her son’s fourth birthday, where they recreated an iconic scene from a movie. However, the response wasn’t what this mom intended at all when she shared the footage. A boy mom does not get the response she intended after sharing the video of a photoshoot with her toddler. In the since-deleted TikTok video that has been reshared on Reddit, a mom expressed her disbelief and adoration that her toddler would be turning four soon. To celebrate the milestone, she decided to put together a photoshoot of a scene from the “Spider-Man” movie. In the clip, her son is dressed in a Spider-Man costume and hanging upside down while she is sitting and leaning …

11 Rare Signs You’re Actually A Genuinely Good Parent

11 Rare Signs You’re Actually A Genuinely Good Parent

Published by Jenni Sidey

There’s no such thing as a perfect parent, and there’s no such thing as a perfect childhood. Parents make mistakes, as do their children, but in order to show up as their best selves for their kids, parents need to give themselves grace. Rather than aiming for impossible standards, it’s all about making their kids feel not only safe with them, but connected to them as well. Though the rare signs you’re actually a genuinely good parent won’t usually become evident until years down the road, it’s important to remember that keeping an open heart and open mind brings parents and kids closer. Because the greatest things that parents can do is to lead with compassion and encouragement at every turn. Here are 11 rare signs you’re actually a genuinely good parent 1. You make your kids feel safe to express themselves PeopleImages | Shutterstock A healthy family life is based on unconditional acceptance and safety. Part of a parent’s role is protecting their kids from harm, and kids need their parents to create a …

Sienna Miller, 44, reveals whether newborn, toddler, or teen is toughest to parent weeks after welcoming third baby

Sienna Miller, 44, reveals whether newborn, toddler, or teen is toughest to parent weeks after welcoming third baby

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Sienna Miller has opened up about the realities of raising a teenager, toddler and newborn all at the same time. During Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the 44-year-old actor, who welcomed her third baby last month, was asked about the difficulties of parenting. “I would have said the teenage girl would be harder to juggle until the transatlantic flight I took yesterday with the toddler and the newborn,” she replied. “The toddler now wins hands down. It was an absolute disaster. There’s no negotiating. “And then the looks people give you on the flight. I was like, ‘Oh my god.’ The baby’s screaming, [the toddler’s] screaming. I got to the line, the immigration line, and just broke down.” In addition …

I spend my life trying not to be an embarrassing parent – but am I BBC’s Amanda?

I spend my life trying not to be an embarrassing parent – but am I BBC’s Amanda?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Image-conscious alpha mum Amanda, played by Lucy Punch, is back for the second series of the BBC sitcom Amandaland – the Motherland spin-off. She’s still living in “SoHa”, as she rebrands South Harlesden to make it sound more cool, having reluctantly downsized from the affluent Chiswick area. But much to the embarrassment of her two teenagers, Georgie and Manus, Amanda has now reinvented herself as an influencer – and is busy pushing her aspirational lifestyle brand, “Senuous”, despite a small hitch that she doesn’t have any followers. She’s clearly delusional. While asking for a £1m investment at her local bank, she accepts the smaller £3,000 offered, and brags to her SoHa mum friends that her company has attracted “major Chinese investors: a banking corporation …

The Parent Trap’s Hayley Mills lost her Disney millions thanks to ‘crook’

The Parent Trap’s Hayley Mills lost her Disney millions thanks to ‘crook’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Hayley Mills was one of Hollywood’s earliest child superstars, appearing in a host of Disney classics in the Sixties – but she’s revealed that a “crook” helped her lose much of her fortune. Mills, 80, shared her experiences with money on Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud Podcast, where she remembered the earliest days of her fame. As a child, Mills signed a lucrative deal with Disney to star in a number of movies, among them The Parent Trap (1961), That Darn Cat! (1965) and In Search of the Castaways (1962). Mills said that at the peak of her celebrity she was encouraged to put her earnings into a trust by a solicitor named Stanley Passmore, who had previously worked with Mills’s actor father Sir John Mills. “Stanley also advised Daddy, and not very well,” she told Brandreth, who added: “I do know the …

Parent Asks How To Tell Daughter They’re Cutting Her Off At 18

Parent Asks How To Tell Daughter They’re Cutting Her Off At 18

Published by Jenni Sidey

There are some parents who draw a hard line in the sand once their child becomes an adult. Not only do the expectations become more rigid, but their freshly turned 18-year-old children are on their own financially, as well.  Such was the case for one parent, who questioned how they should break it to their daughter that the minute she turns 18, she’s basically on her own. That means no financial support in an effort to teach independence. A parent asked how to tell their 17-year-old daughter they’re cutting her off financially when she turns 18 to ‘instill frugality.’ “I’ve decided to basically cut off my daughter once she’s finished with high school, which will be just over five months from now. She didn’t do anything wrong, I’m not eager to be rid of her, and I could easily continue to provide for her basic needs, but I won’t,” the 17-year-old girl’s parent began in the advice submitted to Slate’s money advice column. They explained that when they were their daughter’s age, they lived with …

Parenting Expert Warns Parent To Immediately Delete Online Photos Of Their Children For Key Reason

Parenting Expert Warns Parent To Immediately Delete Online Photos Of Their Children For Key Reason

Published by Sam Flores

A parenting author and columnist has urged other parents to delete all the photos they’ve shared of their kids online – warning that these pictures are like “landmines” waiting to go off as children grow up. Plenty of parents share photos, videos and details of their children’s lives online – usually on social media or in private groups – a phenomenon known as ‘sharenting’. But this increasingly comes at a cost. Other children and teens can easily find these photos online and then turn them into cruel memes, deepfake videos (some of which can be pornographic) or share them around school to cause embarrassment. Lorraine Candy, a journalist and author of ‘Mum, What’s Wrong with You?’: 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know, shared: “I think we need to go back and delete all the pictures we have ever shared – even in private Facebook groups or on private WhatsApp channels – of our children when they were younger.” Explaining the reasoning for this statement, she said when kids reach their tween and teen …