Blog Stalking

I readily admit that I am a blog stalker.  I love to read random people's blogs.

This all started one day when I was reading a friend's blog.   I was bored and hit the "Next Blog" button at the top of the page.  It took me to a cute little Mormon mommy blog (that's what I call them--Mormon women who blog about their marriage/kids . . . not meant to be offensive, of course!  I love these blogs!)  So from this blog, I found another Mormon mommy blog, which led me to a Mormon almost mommy blog (the blogger was pregnant at the time I found her blog, she's since had a cute little boy!)  So from this blog, I found another Mormon family blog.

From that blog I found my first BLM (baby lost momma) blog.  This particular blog was a couple who lost their first child, a daughter, to an accidental drowning when she was just over a year old.  It was heartbreaking.  From that blog I found more BLM blogs, and I just fell in love with this little community.  The women who blog about losing their children and how it's impacted them and their marriages and their faith are amazing.  The stories are heartbreaking but at the same time so inspiring.  I discovered these blogs right as Corey was ending our relationship, and weirdly, they gave me a lot of hope and put my grief into perspective.  I thought, if these women can go through these trials and survive then certainly I can survive a break up.

From BLM blogs I found infertility/TTC/miscarriage blogs.  A lot of those blogs involve divorce, because a good number of marriages don't survive infertility (which is heartbreaking).  From there I found divorce blogs, and from there, a whole lot of blogs about infidelity--some of which were also about subsequent divorce, some of which were about how to rebuild a marriage after infidelity.

Anyway.  It's all fascinating, and as I was reading these infidelity blogs last night I thought about how weird it was that a Mormon mommy blog led to all of that.  Six degrees of separation and whatnot, I guess.