A Lesson on Parenting from Love is Blind

I was just under two years old when my dad took me with him to meet the woman he was cheating on my mom with. Since I was unable to speak, I was the perfect alibi for him because, like any reasonable woman, my mom assumed that her husband surely could not be up to no good with a toddler in tow. Less than a year later, my parents were divorced, and I have no first hand memories of them ever being in the same room together and it not being incredibly uncomfortable.

Justin KelloughMarch 9, 2024

Text Them When You Think About Them

For many years, I struggled to think of anyone other than myself. Actually, it wasn’t so much that I didn’t think about people, I just didn’t bother to reach out to anyone if I did think about them. When some friend I hadn’t spoken to in years randomly popped into my brain, I brushed the thought aside. If I saw something in the news that could have impacted someone I cared about, I rarely thought to check in and see how they were doing. Something that still shames me to this day is how I handled the death of a dear friend’s father just a couple of years out of college.