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Viral & Trending

Viral video brilliantly explains the ‘nag paradox’ and why it causes couples to fight

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Marriage & Partnerships

To my partner: One day, we’ll miss all of this

But right now we have all this. All this beauty. All this wonder. All this joy. Right at our fingertips.

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Marriage & Partnerships

10 creative ways to tell your partner you’re pregnant

Wondering "How do I tell him I'm pregnant?" We polled Motherly mamas to see how they shared the big news with their significant others.

Marriage & Partnerships

This brilliant piece of parenting advice helped me avoid marital spats in early motherhood

Now, it's the one thing I always share with new parents.

Getting Pregnant

What partners can do: 5 strategies to support your partner when trying to get pregnant

Remember & repeat: she is feeling things that I won’t feel.

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Marriage & Partnerships

I waited 2 years, 4 months and 12 days for my libido to return after having twins

Not that I was counting.

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Community & Friendship

I’m the friend who had kids first. Here’s what I wish my other friends had known

Understand that your mama friend still needs you.

Motherly Stories

Here’s to the friends who stick around despite time and distance

These friends matter more than we realize.

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Community & Friendship

Toxic online mom culture is so draining—here’s how to keep your feed healthy for YOU

Understanding that not every mom you come across is going to support your choices will make it easier for you to take those mean comments as a grain of salt and keep it moving.

Community & Friendship

Why is making mom friends so hard?

I needed new friends. It sounds super simple and like something I should be able to do with a snap of the fingers now that I had a baby on my hip. In reality, it was much more complicated.

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Blended Families

How to navigate the holidays when your kids have two homes

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Blended Families

Step-parent advice: 10 ways to strengthen your relationship with your step-children

Living as a blended family can be beautiful, but it can also be a difficult journey.

Blended Families

The 3 most important things you can do to ease the transition of blending your family

Change is hard, even for adults. Now imagine being a child, and having your entire world turned upside down—here's how you can help.

Celebrity News

Adele wrote a song for her son to help him understand her divorce

It takes a village, and we're here to help you navigate yours.…

Blended Families

These viral photos of a dad and stepdad are co-parenting #goals

David and Dylan made choices to cooperate instead of competing. To see each other not as the enemy, but as allies fighting for Willow's happiness. And those choices eventually made them friends and then family.

Blended Families

This mom’s viral TikTok hack will make your child’s co-parenting schedule a whole lot easier

The wonders of a dry erase board and a simple formula can be easily replicated.

Viral & Trending

Grandma explains why she doesn’t buy gifts for her grandkids in viral TikTok

"I just remember when my children were younger, all the LEGOs, all the Barbie shoes, all the little things that just got thrown away."

Viral & Trending

Adorable baby goes viral for signing with her deaf grandparents

Turns out, learning sign language comes naturally to lots of babies.

Grandparents & Extended Families

Any minute now, I’ll be Nana

She’s due today, and when she gets here, she’ll be bringing me a new role, a new name, and a new way to love.

Getting Pregnant

10 questions to discuss with your partner before getting pregnant

10 questions to make sure you're ready to become parents.

Motherly Stories

How shared custody prepared me for college drop-off

I stood there alone amidst the towering redwood trees waiting for the grief to hit. It didn’t.

Divorce

I’m getting a divorce—why am I thriving compared to the other moms I know?

I am proud to say that I think we are building a better divorce than many people’s marriages—through open communication, putting our kids first and a high degree of mutual respect.