“Instead of wedding rings we got tattoos of our favorite dinosaurs.”
"90-year-old grandma meeting her 1-week-old grandson"
“This bee taking shelter inside of a rose because of the rain”
“Got a onesie sent to me anonymously with instructions to wear it for my birthday. My friends are amazing.”
“After wanting one for 15 years, my wife got to finally adopt a cat yesterday.”
“I made tiny pancakes and a tiny table for my little buddy.”
“I found him on the road and he fell asleep in my hands. Best day of my life.”
“I got my mom’s illiterate English tattooed on my arm. I love it so much. I love her so much.”
“My classmates decided to shave their heads for cancer research. Only one girl volunteered.”
“Christmas donkeys made a surprise visit to our memory care assisted living.”
“My generous mother-in-law’s shocked face when she saw they’re getting the new couch she wants for Christmas.”
“After years of struggling with anxiety, depression and OCD, I wrote a book of poetry to help other people with it.”
“Helping my assistant put on a tie to go with their first fitted suit. I felt very fatherly in that moment.”
“My stepdad helping out an elderly woman in the recent flooding”
“My sister found a cane on a fence outside of a store. She called the number printed on it and returned it to a kind old man.”
“Donated this 24,000-piece puzzle to a children’s mental health center.”
“Volunteered as Santa at the local animal shelter. This is my favorite picture by far.”
“A good samaritan found the wallet I lost in the ocean...24 years ago!”
“My husband has been bringing his trash picker to clean up local parks and hiking trails long before it was a hashtag.”
“Take what you need at my local high school. The admin and teachers here are making such a difference for these kids.”
“I picked this man up during a rare Los Angeles downpour. He missed the last bus and was shuffling home in the rain.”
“Every Christmas, my mom takes a bunch of envelopes with $20 cash in them and hands them out to strangers in our town.”
“Told my barber I recently finished a dream project of releasing an action film, and he offered to hang the movie poster in his shop.”
“People were leaving these in the parking lot of the hospital that my mom works at.”
“The kid and cat are in awe of snow.”
“My wife made a half cake for my daughter’s half birthday.”
“How cool, my nana is 80 years young and my rescued pup is 4 years old and they are the best of friends.”
“The jacket is a bit big for her, but she seems to like it anyway.”
“This old man can play a mean game. He’s good at playing the classic ’woe is me, I’m a defenseless old man’ angle before destroying his opponents.”
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Your grandparents had no choice. If they got divorced, your grandmother had no one to earn money and your grandpa would've realised he couldn't cook or clean or wash his clothes. Society wouldn't support their decision to split up either, they would've been cast outs.
today you can stay with whoever you love and leave them, if there is no love left. You can find new love. You are no longer forced to stay with someone you don't like anymore.
It's an improvement.
orrrr another way to look at it, is that maybe my grandparents loved each other? no choice? lol perhaps the fact divorce is so common these days is not the absence of implied 'exile' by society in the past leaving them 'no choice' to stay together for 56 years, along with your typical generalization of past marriage roles, but maybe it's how people are more vacuous and self centered in present day? Taking commitment, responsibility and especially relationships with other people as lightly as they do getting a new TV? We can agree to disagree, because I have a inkling of where you're coming from and...well...it's sounds purely contrarian and frankly like it's coming from someone who would say 'ok, boomer'. I don't mean that personally, but in your words, I see your justification to be all the things I said and that could be a finer point. I read something about there being less empathy in the world today, so perhaps it's not lack of love that wracks up so many divorces, but perhaps the lack of ability TO love anyone but yourself? It's rather cold to imply my grandparents had 'no choice'. That alone has closed me off from listening to anything else you have to say. I would have listened if you had used just one 'maybe' but you make it sound so black and white, you made me revise my outlook about adult children and find your point of view to be worse. Good luck to you, Ray! I really do mean that.
Translation: "Stupid kids these days." *grumble* "Back in MY day..."
are you, like, following me around? lol and now that Lisa and Ray tossed their hat in the ring you see a quick and easy way to ingratiate yourself in a discussion that had nothing to do with you but you couldn't resist jumping in on? I was kinda sorta hoping to debate the point here with Ray a bit more if he wanted to make the effort, but here you are to get dem thumbs up! here, you can have mine XD like my other posts you undoubtedly are checking in your 'Debby is a victim' psychosis it's so easy to get you cooking...in fact.......I probably won't keep doing so, because after all this CONSTANT spitting rage and hate from you in every other comment, every other column, every other post, it's making me feel bad about myself, I can admit that. I was just kinda goading you, but now I feel like I'm being...well, mean. And you're a bit too invested in all this Deb, like, legit.
I can't help but feel that writing comments on izismile posts is the highlight of your day. Must be fun to be you. ;o)
so what's wrong with checking back and commenting? I don't always get the time in the morning while the coffee's brewin' and anyway we all do it :P see? you feel smug for putting me down about it, right? it's all the same BS, Big Jim.
it's when you lie about your age.