Daily Insights

I worked as a kindergarten teacher. A father and his daughter came late. I started telling him off and he was bursting with laughter. I continued and he just smiled and said, “You sound exactly like her.” I paused, mid-scold, a little thrown. “Like who?”“My late wife,” he said, with a soft look on his […]

My mother left us when I was 12. 25 years later, she suddenly reappeared, begging to meet my 16 y.o. daughter. My child agreed, even though I said, “Don’t! She will use you!” 2 years later, my mother died, and my daughter got a call from an unknown number. Her face turned pale when she […]

A family once took me on vacation with them so I could watch their kids. It’s late at night, I’m laying on the couch and the parents got home. The dad says, “Is she sleeping?”, referring to me. He assumed I was, so he then started whispering to his wife. And that’s when I heard […]

My MIL calls me an “old gold digger.” I’m just five years older than her son. I run my own business, never needed a dime from her precious boy. She begged me to leave him. I refused. Next day, I came home and to my horror, found my husband— —collapsed on the floor of our […]

My best friend had a baby at 16. She never told anyone who the father was… and I never asked. Years passed, and I got close to her son, Thomas. One day while babysitting, I noticed a birthmark that looked exactly like one that runs in my family. I tried to ignore it, but it […]

My friend was tutoring a boy. It was late, the buses stopped running, so he had to sleep on the floor. Later, he woke her up and said, “I’m hungry, let’s get some food.” She said, “Go back to bed,” but he insisted. When they were outside, the boy turned to her and said, “I […]