The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms,… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“I can only speak from my personal experience, but I’ve been married for ten years and barely any gay people have tried… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Young people: marry simply, start your life, and party later. Think of how much babysitting for your future colicky baby you could… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
We are all trained by Disney to believe that the wedding is the finish line, but the wedding is just another starting… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Sometimes the rewards of risk don't leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It can only… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“I'm trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Each day, we're making sandcastles I know will be washed away. I long for something solid, lasting, strong between us.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others'… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Rock bottom is a crisis... and everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what 'crisis' means literally is 'to sift' - like a child who… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep you off… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“The sun shows up every morning, no matter how bad youve been the night before. It shines without judgment. It never withholds. It warms… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
