Confessions We Loved To Read This Week

Back-to-school is upon (some of) us.

Jul. 31, 2025 MoMo Productions/DigitalVision/Getty Images A+ "I Want My Kids Take A Year Off From Sports" & 12 Other Back-To-School Confessions It's hard to believe we've already moved on from our summer confessions — whether you were dreading it or loving it — and are now fully immersed in our back-to-school thoughts, secrets, and woes, isn't it? Feels like just yesterday we were all commiserating with each other about how summer is the worst, or how summer is our favorite, or how a lack of routine really might be the end of all of us as we serve popsicles for breakfast again. And now it's time to dive deep into the back-to-school confessions of moms just like you. Moms who are ready for the school year to start, moms who are beyond tired of a feral summer, moms who are feeling a mixed bag of bittersweet emotions. Read 'em and weep – or laugh! Read More ⮕ Latest Eva-Katalin/E+/Getty Images What The Health?! People Are Sharing The Most Unhinged Things Their Doctors Have Said To Them Plenty of people have had weird interactions with doctors. One TikTok user shared their own, prompting others to chime in with their own chaotic stories. Read More. Home Depot Spooky, Scary Skeletons! Home Depot's Halloween Lineup Is Here & There's Now An *Interactive* Skelly There are several new items coming to Home Depot's Halloween line, including an interactive Skelly. Read More. RealPeopleGroup/E+/Getty Images Kids FTW Parents Are Sharing The Tiny Unexpected Benefits Of Having Children From making new friends to reliving your childhood, we did not see all these perks of parenthood coming when we got pregnant! Read More. Featured ADD TO CART This Beauty Product Is The Secret To Looking Instantly More Awake When you're running on fumes (and caffeine), MERIT's award-winning Flush Balm is the kind of low-effort, high-impact product that makes you look like you've got it all together — even if you definitely don't. This cream blush melts into your skin for an instant flush of color that makes you look more awake in seconds, and it's earned a serious following (one sells every 30 seconds) for good reason. Clean, vegan, and packed with skin-friendly ingredients like vitamin E, it's part of MERIT's mission to simplify beauty routines with well-edited essentials that do more with less. No brushes, no complicated techniques — just one swipe and you're out the door. Shop Now ⮕ Shop Beauty Essentials MERIT Five Minute Morning - The Core Collection Shop Now ⮕ MERIT Flush Balm Cheek Color Shop Now ⮕ MERIT Great Skin Instant Glow Serum Shop Now ⮕ MERIT The Uniform Tinted Mineral Sunscreen SPF 45 Shop Now ⮕ Featured that mom Anna Connelly Tells It Like It Is This month's That Mom – our monthly interview with a mom you've definitely seen all over your Instagram feed – is Anna Connelly, a Minneapolis-based mom who is unafraid to take on MAGA disinformation with humor, facts and grace. She's funny, she's smart, she's got it all, and you'll want to follow her. Read More ⮕ What Else We're Reading: ⮕ Inconsistent Sleep Schedule Tied To Nearly 200 Diseases, Confirming Your Suspicions ⮕ The 16 Romantasy Books Goodreads Members Are Most Obsessed With ⮕ 'Untamed' Season 2 Is Official! Netflix's National Park Thriller Gets Renewed

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What If Your Marriage Feels Like A "Situationship"?

Ruh roh.

Jul. 30, 2025 zoranm/E+/Getty Images Time To Spice Things Up Forget The Roommate Effect — What If Your Marriage Feels Like A "Situationship"? "Every married person has probably heard of the "roommate effect" — that not-so-great phenomenon where you realize you're treating your spouse more like a roommate than someone you deeply love and connect with," writes Sam Darby today. "It's easy to see how it happens. Divvying up household chores, spending most of your evenings chasing after kids, stealing five minutes together in the hallway after bedtime before getting to everything else on your list — it's a common complaint for a reason. But what if your marriage starts feeling like a "situationship"?" She spoke with some experts to ask what the hell to do about it. Read More ⮕ Latest to zzzzz or not to zzzzz Do You Come From A "Sleep Supportive" Family? Or Not So Much? People are talking about whether they live in "sleep supportive families" or "non-sleep supportive families." Read More. our inner children love this Ashley Judd Has Joined The We Don't Care Club & Now We All Want In Here's to playing in the ocean with the joy of a child in a comfortable bathing suit — Ashley Judd does not care what you think of her body or her actions. Read More. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images splitting hairs Tia Mowry Clapped Back To Criticism That She's Not A Single Mom Tia Mowry divorced Cory Hardrict in 2022, but he's still in her life as a co-parent. And people have a lot to say about using the term "single mom." Read More. Featured taters gonna tate 11 Recipes To Use Up Potatoes, Because That 5-Pound Bag Ain't Eating Itself These easy recipes to use up potatoes are perfect for when you have half a mesh bag of them left to cook with, and no idea what you should make. Read More ⮕ What Else We're Reading: ⮕ The Real Reason You Should Write Your Kid's Name On School Supplies ⮕ What It Means to "Reparent" Yourself, According To Experts — & 8 Ways to Start ⮕ I'm A Better Friend When I Stay Off Social Media

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