When two people are in love and decide to tie the knot, they believe it’s forever. But life is full of surprises and sometimes things happen, and we are not powerful to change the fact that after some time married couples are fed up with everything going on between them and decide to put an end of the marriage.
And when there is a divorce involved in the life of two people, it usually affects both in a negative way. Most divorces are followed by arguing, fighting over the custody, and even paying lots of money to lawyers.
However, it’s not unusual for two divorced people to remain friends after they split. This happens when both the exes are reasonable people who put their children’s needs before their own. This is the case with Codie McPhate’s parents. Even 28 years after their separation, Codie’s father still mows his ex-wife’s lawn. And that is really something special.
Codie believes what her father is showing that no matter what happened between the two, he still cares for the mother of his daughter.
‘“My mom has bad knees, and my step dad works out of town. When my younger siblings questioned, ‘Why is your dad mowing moms lawn?’ I told them, ‘Because, she needed help, and he knew she couldn’t get out here to do it, so he did,’”
The girl says that besides their decision not to be together any longer, her parents have always vowed to “choose to be adults and treat each other with respect and compassion.”
Codie’s parents remarried, but that didn’t prevent them staying in touch. The daughter is getting along with her stepparents and says it’s amazing how the four of them respect each other and co-parent perfectly.
‘“This is how lucky I am to have 4 parents who respect each other, and know that at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is showing your children (Even ones that are 32 years old) how to treat people, and how to love your family, no matter how it came together,”
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We live in a world where many consider being divorced as the greatest sin, not understanding that sometimes that’s the best-case scenario. There are couples like the McPhate’s who prove these people wrong and are a perfect example of how things can work out when you are reasonable and understanding.
As they say, good divorce is better than bad marriage, and when a relationship between two people is broken, choosing a different path is the most reasonable decision. Codie’s parents teach us that when this happens, children should be taught that it’s not always a bad thing.
Regarding her father’s act of kindness, the girl posted “He wants everyone to know ‘I’m no saint.’ He just wants to show others that you don’t need to act like an angelic pastor on lent, but that we should all choose kindness whenever we can.”
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The period during which Donald Trump was the head of the country was filled with plenty of controversy. He, however, definitely left mark in American history.
When he left the White House, it was widely reported that his wife, Melania Trump was relieved. Apparently, she had it enough of the life as a First Lady and rumors were she wasn’t happy with the fact that her husband entered another political battle for president. Back in 2020, while Trump was yet in the race to secure a second term, a source told CNN that Melania “just wants to go home.” When Trump announced he would be running for president yet again in 2024, that same source said, “that might not go over well”.
Trump lost the elections and Jo Biden took his place, but as most of us would agree, Biden will never steal the spotlight the way Trump did.
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In recent time, Donald Trump neither confirmed nor denied if he will be running for re-election in 2024, and there is a lot of space for interpretation of his recent appearances at political rallies at different countries.
In an interview for Fox & Friends, Melania dropped a hint regarding her husband’s future political plans, although it is highly unlikely that we will ever hear a straightforward answer to the question of whether Trump will try to secure for himself the most powerful seat in the world.
In the interview, Melania was to reveal her initiative to celebrate foster care month. She said her plan was to help young adults in foster care to attend college. She even Facetimed one of the recipients of a scholarship, Michael Whitesman, who thanked her for her generosity, to which Melania replied, “Study hard and get good grades.” The young man then promised, “I will, I got you, straight A’s all the way.”
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However, that wasn’t all she talked about. Among the rest, the former First Lady spoke of her exclusion from the cover of Vogue Magazine, and the current administration leading the country.
“I think it’s sad to see what’s going on, if you really look deeply into it,” she told Hegseth.
“I think a lot of people are struggling and suffering and what is going on around the world as well. So it’s very sad to see and I hope it changes fast.”
Asked about what she thinks of her husband’s achievements during his years of presidency, she said, “I think we achieved a lot in four years of the Trump administration.” For the possibility of her husband running again, gorgeous Melania answered, “Never say never,” leaving many both stunned and puzzled.
Trump himself has also dropped hints that he is ready to enter a lengthy election campaign as he took the stage at the Austin Convention Center in Texas some time ago as part of his American Freedom Tour, and urged Republicans to get ready to “take back” the United States when the next election rolls around.
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Joined by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Trump told the crowd, “I ask you to get ready to work, get ready to fight, get ready to win — and win like never before.
“Together, we will take back the House, we will take the Senate, and we will take back our country.”
We are yet to see what the future holds for the Trumps when it comes to their life in politics.
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That dog is man’s best friend has been proved many times. These animals are the most loyal companions one can ever ask for.
A dog named Benji, who seemed to be overprotective when it came to the newest addition to the family, worried the little one’s parents.
In fact, Benji acted strangely even when his human mommy, Jessy, was pregnant with baby Lily. They even took him to the vet to see if everything was okay with him and see why he was acting so strangely. The vet assured them that there was nothing wrong with Benji, he was just looking forward to meeting his human sister.
When Lily was welcomed into the world, Benji wouldn’t spend a minute away from her, and no matter how much Jessy and her husband David loved the attention their daughter received, they thought that their furry pal was a little bit more protective than they wanted him to be.
Benji never left Lily sleep all by herself, he was always there watching her, whether it was during the day or during the night.
However, what puzzled David was that their dog was getting anxious whenever Jessy’s best friend Anne was around. Anne was by Jessy’s side during her pregnancy, and she even offered to babysit the baby whenever they were in need of a helping hand. So, when David brought up the question, Jessy got mad. She didn’t want her friend to be accused of anything, because she was the first person Jessy turned to when she was in need of a friend during the past couple of years.
Since Benji was getting particularly anxious during the night, David decided to install security cameras in Lily’s room. When Anne heard of it, she asked why he would do that, which had David thinking even more. Was Anne doing anything to Lily? Was that the reason Benji didn’t like her? If so, the dog wouldn’t be that anxious at night, when Anne wasn’t around. There were so many questions messing up with David’s mind, and he couldn’t find the answer no matter how much he tried.
Days passed by, and David didn’t notice anything strange after reviewing the footage. But then, he realized that the videos the camera captured during the night were compromised.
He then decided to make a separate encrypted backup every day for the night recordings, and what he saw chilled his blood. Someone was entering Lily’s room through the window during the night.
The following day, they alerted the police. However, not being able to clearly see the person entering the baby’s room it was hard to identify him or her. When the police entered Lily’s room, Benji wouldn’t stop barking at a wall. He was even pointing towards it. The officers decided to break it and see whether there was anything inside it. When they cracked the wall open, they spotted a safe. Inside, there was money, some jewellery and a number of documents and passports. In each of them, under a different name, there was a photo of Anne.
But where was she? Anne was nowhere to be found when the police wanted to question her.
When they checked her photo in their database, they realized that Anne was in fact a woman named Elizabeth, who was wanted for espionage in seven countries.
The reason she infiltrated the lives of Jessy and David was because David worked as the director of the national security company. He had access to the entire national security grid and Elizabeth had probably been hired by a rival company to get access to the data David possessed.
Thanks to Benji, a mystery was solved, and the family was saved from the damage Elizabeth could have easily caused.
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Having a baby is demanding by itself. The truth is that first-time-parents don’t have it easy, and sometimes, the society doesn’t really do anything to facilitate the lives of new moms and dads. For one, they need to find the most suitable solution regarding their child’s care in case they both do full-time jobs, and all that baby stuff, such as diapers and strollers, isn’t really cheap.
However, raising a child is the most beautiful thing there is, so all the struggles which come with it are in the shadow compared to the joy children bring.
A father of a baby took to Reddit to share a recent experience he had with restrooms and changing tables. He wanted to learn whether he was right or wrong when he decided to change his baby’s diapers in the women’s restroom since the men’s didn’t have any changing tables.
When he noticed the smell coming from the little one’s diaper, he rushed towards the bathroom section and looked for a family restroom, but since there wasn’t any, he headed towards the men’s restroom, but there wasn’t any separate space that he could use in order to change the diapers of his baby. “There was a cubicle and a few urinals, but no changing table. The sink didn’t have a counter either,” he explained in his post.
He then asked an employee for help, and she assured him there was a changing space at the men’s restroom. He went back inside and looked thoroughly but there wasn’t any.
It was then that he decided to use the women’s restroom. There was a lady there washing her hands, but he assured her he was there just because of the baby. Then another woman entered and started screaming, “Get out! You can’t be here!”
She then went to an employee and started complaining. Seeing that, this dad took his baby and rushed outside the bathroom. “I saw the woman talking to an employee and decided to leave without my stuff. The employee tried to wave me down and stop me, but I rushed out to my car, buckled my son into his carseat and left,” he explained in his post.
He then added that when he went home and told his family what happened, his mother called him ‘an idiot,’ but his wife assured him he did just the right thing.
Not surprisingly, most of the Reddit users who commented on his post took his side. “That store is 100% to blame for this. I wouldn’t be shocked if they’ve received complaints about this in the past and haven’t done anything about it,” one person wrote.
“If anything you did wrong by rushing out as if you did something wrong. You should have told the employee that there’s no changing room in the men’s and that they should do something about that,” another added.
We do believe he isn’t the one to blame for using a women’s restroom. What about you?
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Ever since the world learned that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were a thing, all eyes have been on them.
They have been through thick and thin together and have made headlines with their decision to step down from their royal duties and leave Britain for America.
The infamous interview the Sussexes gave Oprah Winfrey following their departure from The Firm caused quite a stir because they brought up questions no one has ever dared to speak about openly. The couple shared that a member of the royalty questioned the color of then unborn Archie. Further, Meghan claimed that she came forward about her mental struggles, but she was silenced.
All this, along with the pressure the media imposed on the actress, was a reason enough for Harry and Meghan to leave the Royal family and start their life in California.
In the past, Harry said he would never allow the press to have an impact on his wife the way they had on his mother, and he kept that promise.
However, although they are very much in love and their marriage resembles fairytale, rumors are Meghan was jealous of Harry recently, after he was spotted in the company of another woman.
Namely, Prince Harry attended a charity polo game in Colorado recently, and a photo of the winning team, Harry was part of, was shared on the Instagram page of the Aspen Polo Club. Another member of the team was Riley Ganzi, a gorgeous 24-year-old polo player.
“Meghan went crazy as soon as she noticed Riley, who is talented, gorgeous, and very funny. She then found out that Riley’s parents are influential people in the world of polo and are close to Prince Charles,” a source close to the couple was reported to have said.
Further, the source added that Riley is the type of a woman who would have attracted the prince’s attention when he was a bachelor.
The event Harry and Riley attended helped raise $3.5 million for the vulnerable children in South Africa.
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Some people can be so cruel sometimes that it makes us lose our faith in humanity. I don’t understand how hurting animals can bring joy to them, and all I ever hope for is for every person who abuses animals get what they deserve, a long time behind bars.
Besides the punishment which comes in a form of a fine and some prison time, now-former judge Michael Cicconetti gave animal abusers creative punishments in an attempt to teach them a valuable lesson that will stick with them for many years.
Judge Cicconetti is a huge animal lover and believes that animal abuse and neglect should never take place because animals are meant to be loved unconditionally, not suffer from the hands of those who are supposed to care for them.
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This judge’s punishments were so clever that a huge number of people heard of them and praised him for his creativity.
One time, a woman was found guilty of forcing her dog live in filth, so along with a fine, judge Cicconetti sentenced her to spend an entire day at the county’s dump.
“I want you to go down to the county dump, to the landfill, and I want them to find the stinkiest, smelliest, God-awful odor place they can find in that dump and I want you to sit there for eight hours tomorrow, to think about what you did to that dog while you smell the odor. If you puke, you puke,” he was reported to had told her.
Another woman was found guilty of abandoning a litter of kittens in the woods, so the judge sentenced her to spend a night in the woods all by herself, just to see how it feels and how scary it is.
Thank you, judge Cicconetti for your love for animals.
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Hollywood is the place where dreams are made, but the number of people who get there and manage to stay is limited to those most talented and most fortunate.
Having a successful career in the film industry isn’t something many can brag about, but luckily for us, Tom Selleck is one of those celebs who has been on TV for many years.
This actor’s big break came when he was cast in the lead role as Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P.I., which brough him five Emmy Award nominations, winning one in 1985.
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Before reaching stardom, however, he landed minor roles in films and series, played in a number of commercials, and made a pair of appearances on The Dating Game. Speaking of the game show, he recalled, “Humiliating and embarrassing. I lost. Twice. I wasn’t particularly funny or glib.” Selleck was then offered a spot on 20th Century Fox’s talent program, where he spent around two years before taking leave to do six months of active duty. Once he returned, he was dropped, but that didn’t break his spirit.
“The luckiest thing that happened was that I didn’t get a real job until I was 35,” Selleck shared with AARP. “When I was 25, I looked 35 but sounded 15. There are a lot of very good actors who make it as younger leading men but don’t graduate — because the audience won’t accept them as grown up.”
Magnum P.I. came at the time when he was almost ready to give up chasing a career as an actor. “I think if Magnum hadn’t worked out, I’d never have worked again in this business,” he shared in an interview with Closer Weekly.
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Ever since 2010, Selleck has been a co-star in the television series Blue Bloods where he plays Frank Reagan, the commissioner of the New York City Police Department. The show has been renewed for its 13th season.
Over the course of his career of many years, Selleck has done most of the stunts himself, but as it turns out, this decision has taken its toll and his body isn’t the way it was.
“My back’s kind of messed up,” Selleck shared.
“When you do stunts in movies—I do a lot of them—you’re taking a risk, but you’re also sitting around a lot. So you might do a fight scene, and then you sit in your chair, and it’s not like you have a personal trainer saying, ‘Okay, we’re ready to go, but Tom needs ten minutes of stretching and warm-up.’”
“And I think the price,” he added, “I see it with peers, I talk to them sometimes. You just see the price of all those stunts. They weren’t that hard, but I think it’s the stop-and-go of all that stuff.”
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The actor keeps in shape by working on his ranch in Ventura, California. He’s also very passionate about horses, love he has passed down to his daughter.
Selleck has been married to wife Jillie Mack for 35 years. What makes their union one of the strongest in Hollywood is that he always puts his family first.
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Speaking to People, Selleck said in 2012, “I quit Magnum to have a family.
“It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.”
“We both thought it was the best environment for Hannah to grow up,” his wife added.
We wish Tom Selleck great health.
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Some people believe that life is all about finding the one, getting married, and starting a family. But is this the norm? Certainly not. There are also those who find happiness in being single and free, and that’s totally fine.
Many people don’t want to commit, and they are not judged for their decision as they were in the past. At the end of the day, there is no exact definition of what happiness is, because different people find it in different things.
Recent research shows that single women who don’t have children are the happiest people of all. Relationships do make people happy, but according to Professor Paul Dolan from the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE, when two people get married the women are the ones who have a higher risk for both mental and physical health problems in middle age.
“[t]he healthiest and happiest population subgroup are women who never married or had children.” he says.
For a number of women, the stress is heavily weighted upon having a relationship and children.
Professor Dolan claims that recent data shows that the “traditional” model of success, which is a marriage and children, isn’t correlated with happiness and satisfaction. Even today, women are the ones who are expected to clean the house and do most of the chores. They also tend to do more of the emotional work in a relationship.
“There’s evidence that women spend longer on domestic tasks than men, and I think they also do more emotional work — so they still do more housework and cooking and things as well as more emotional labor,” says University of Essex Professor Emily Grundy.
In the past, women were more dependent on men. They were not allowed to work and have careers, but as years went by and all this changed drastically, women became independent, and with that, the need to be married by any cost diminished.
“Certainly, there’s a common finding from a lot of studies that women who don’t have a partner tend to do more social activities and more friends compared to women with partners whereas with men it’s the reverse — men without a partner tend to do much less of that,” says Grundy.
The truth is that men can also benefit from the lack of responsibility to another person or family, with the difference that women weren’t allowed to enjoy those benefits for a long period of time.
It is beautiful that every person can choose to do what makes them happy. If that is being in a relationship and having kids, just go for it, but never judge those who decide to stay single and don’t see themselves as a parent material.
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