Lifestyle
I stopped rushing through phone calls with my parents and started letting the silences sit and the conversations went from five minutes to forty-five and I realized they were never boring—I was just never listening
At 67 I joined a grief support group expecting to talk about my late husband and instead spent most sessions realizing I was also grieving the version of myself I set aside at 31 when I decided my family's needs would always come before my own
I grew up lower middle class and the thing I remember most clearly isn't what we didn't have—it's the way my parents danced in the kitchen to the radio while dinner was cooking like they had completely forgotten we were watching and for a moment they were just two people who were still in love
7 things lower middle class parents said in the kitchen that their kids can still hear word for word 30 years later and every single one was really about something much bigger than what it sounded like
9 tiny rituals couples in their 70s still do for each other every day that younger couples stopped doing somewhere around year three and never started again
