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I Need Vodka

Oh, Men. Is empathy still an active emotion with you? While you're filling my inbox with 11 messages of condolences as thinly veiled offers of dinner and drinks within 2 days of my heart being broken, do you think you're healing me? I'm barely holding myself together with grace so I guarantee I won't be as kind and diplomatic as I might have otherwise been when I tell you I'm not ready. Then, I'm going to feel guilty about the harshness I'm displaying or just completely ignoring you but can't do anything to stop the guilt because that's the type of person I am. Don't put either of us through that. Pain takes time to heal. I'm not ready for you to hurt me. Yes, that's what I expect, because I'm currently still hurting. I'm so sick right now I can barely eat. Dinner with you isn't even physically appealing. If I have drinks with you I'm going to get emotional and cry all over you about the despair I'm currently fee...
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The Best We Can

This is raw but I needed to just get it out. I couldn't keep reading it over and over to edit... Please have grace with me. I feel like a failure as a mother.  Logically I know it’s not true but our hearts and minds often pull us in different directions and now is most assuredly one of those times for me. I have two boys, 11 and 13. Colin, my 11 year old, loves robotics, music and aerial arts. Caleb, my 13 year old, loves sports and video games. Their personalities are like night and day but they’re both incredible young men with enormous hearts. I was lucky as a young mom. Both boys started sleeping for 6ish hours through the night at around 6 weeks old. They were great toddlers and never got into too much trouble. I really was blessed with healthy, smart, caring children. Being a mom to two great kiddos and gliding through most of elementary school was so easy and satisfying… until it wasn’t. About 4 years ago when Caleb was in 4 th grade things started to change: just l...
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New or Used

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I'm sorry...WHAAAA?!?! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Carlie's Dating Tips: #lifelovevodka
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FOR THE GUYS! The KAT Method

Guys, Can I let you in on a secret? Before I even read a message or look at your profile, your main photo determines everything! …and I’m not the only woman who thinks this way. Are you sending out polite messages, spelling her name right and mentioning something in your message that shows you actually READ her profile? Did you send her a wink or pay to show up first on her swipe options only to be left sitting there wondering what went wrong like Ryan Reynolds during the Green Lantern reviews? It’s simple! I can help! For training purposes, we’re going to call this the KAT method. Is your main profile photo of: K ids - I’m on a dating site to find you, not to be blasted in the face with the fact that more children will be around to eventually turn into teenagers and hate me. I have teenagers, y’all. Don’t make me think about kids and dating in the same swipe. It’ll go left IMMEDIATELY! A nimals, Dead or Dying - Hunter/Fisherman? GREAT! …but I can’t even s...
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Pinky Promise

OK, Serious time. Have any of you read Girl, Wash Your Face ? So, here I am, minding my own business deep into a project a work, listening to my audio book and I was startled into attention at something I heard in this book. Well, let me start at the beginning… This book was highly recommended to me by a girlfriend. We were talking about life. One of those talks where everything just spills out and you overshare but everyone is oversharing and you feel a little less alone in this world… I love those talks. So, I immediately hopped on my phone to check out this book and wound up at a whopping #27 on the waiting list. I finally received my “automatically borrowed” book notification this morning, and as I was JUST finishing up on Book 1 of my guilty pleasure, Twilight, it was perfect timing! (It’s ok. You can judge me. I’m Barbeque Sauce… OK, yeah, yeah, I know I’m off topic but if you don’t know what I’m talking about check out 4 Ways to Deal with a Bully . If you’re a parent i...
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Keep trying

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Not all days are good. I'm not always pretty. I cry, sometimes a lot. I'm terrified of my parenting choices. I make horrible mistakes. I still have to try every day. This is me. #lifelovevodka #thisisme #keeptrying 
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Carlie's Dating Tip #13

So, you're on the dating site and you finally find someone who you think is attractive, their page doesn't have any red flags and you decide to start a conversation. Everything is going fine for the first few back and forth messages, but then you realize that the other person isn't messaging you back... And when they do there's not much to it. What do you do? Go back through the messages you sent and determine how many of them asked a question. You would be amazed at how many men I've talked to on dating sites who answer questions and stop asking them. Do you know what this shows me? You're not interested in finding out anything about me. Not to mention, if you're not asking me a question that limits what I have to talk about. Always end your conversation/reply asking a question. This gives the other person a place to start and keeps the conversation going. You're welcome. *This goes out to you JS from POF. Sorry not sorry. Carlie's Dating Tips...
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