We struggle.

"We struggle to teach others how to love us. In that struggle, we often forget how to appreciate the love they already give us as only they can give it."

- Nancy Taylor Robson, Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul

My favorite aunt and uncle always recommend the greatest books to me.

When I was a rebellious teenager, my mother gifted me my first Chicken Soup book as a token of her love after she and I had an argument.

I haven't opened another one since then but these collections of short stories are still capable of inducing floods of tears from me after all these years.