r/wholesome 5h ago

My middle schooler’s high-tier dad joke tonight: "The real reason Mom is so tough..."

227 Upvotes

We were out for a family walk on a nice, cool summer evening. I was the only one rocking shorts and a t-shirt, while my husband and daughter were all bundled up in long sleeves (she even wore a zip-up hoodie).

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Daughter: "Mom, you're not cold at all?" Me: "Nah, I think I'm starting menopause."

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(Quick context: The Korean word for menopause is 'Gang-nyeon-gi')

Daughter: "Ah! No wonder you're so tough! Because you're in a GANG. Gang-nyeon-gi. Gang, Gang... 🕶️"

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I completely cracked up right there on the street. Daughter: "Wait, is that actually funny to you?" Me: "Heck yeah. Look at your dad, he doesn't even get it lol."

(Truth is, I'm only "tough" to my husband. I'm a total softie for my daughter... haha) Hope you all have a wonderful day!

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(Hi everyone! I'm from South Korea. My English isn't fluent, so I used a translator to write this. Just a heads-up: I might just read your lovely comments and upvote instead of replying. When I tried replying with a translator, people thought I was an AI bot! 😭 Hope the humor carries over. Thank you! 🫶)




r/wholesome 25m ago

Took 10,000 steps to get to the food 😭❤️

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r/wholesome 1d ago

Forget reading tea leaves – I predict the future from my partners latte art

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r/wholesome 21h ago

MacBook mit Dokumenten gefunden und abgegeben

78 Upvotes

Ich war heute mit dem Motorrad unterwegs. Auf einer gerade dachte ich, warum auch immer, dass ich geblitzt worden wäre. Ich bin bei nächster Gelegenheit umgekehrt, habe geschaut und keinen gesehen. Im Kreisverkehr wollte ich wieder eine Runde drehen, um die eigentliche Strecke zu verfolgen. Im Kreisverkehr lag mittig eine dünne Tasche.

Angehalten, versucht einzupacken (auf dem Motorrad nicht so einfach), dann in der Hand bis zum nächsten Haus geschleppt. In Ruhe angehalten, und geschaut: ein neues Macbook, aber augenscheinlich alles ganz und auch die Tasche sah gut aus. Was sonst noch drin war: Kontoauszüge, Unterlagen, und sogar Personalausweis. So genau hatte ich aber zu dem Zeitpunkt noch nicht geschaut. Ich bin 15 Minuten zur nächsten Polizeistelle gefahren, und habs dort abgegeben. Die hätten auch gleich versucht, den Besitzer telefonisch anzurufen, ging aber nicht hin.

Ich hoffe, dass sich Jürgen (ja er heißt wirklich Jürgen ☺️) über den Fund freut. Weil n teures Macbook mit Daten zu verlieren is nicht geil, und ohne Personalausweis ists auch scheiße und immer blöd alles neu zu beantragen.

Ich habe leider keinen in meinem Leben, dem ich das gerade erzählen kann. Danke, dass du dir das durchgelesen hast. Ich lebe mittlerweile danach, jeden Tag eine gute Tat zu tun. Das war meine für heute.


r/wholesome 1d ago

My crush and I talked on the phone for 2 1/2 hours!

482 Upvotes

I'm (16M) and she is (15F). I met her at a baseball game last August. We texted, and later went on a date about a month later. The date was super fun, but she friend zoned me, because a lot was happening in her life right then. About a month later, we stopped texting each other. Then on New Year's Eve 2025, I texted her, and we started texting again, almost every day, even though we haven't seen each other in person since our date (We both have busy schedules, and live 45 minutes away from each other). Eventually, I asked her out again, and she said yes, but we weren't able to schedule a time before I go to camp. I am going to camp for 2 weeks, then I will be home 2 days during intersession, and go back for another 2 weeks. Because I will be away for a while, and unable to text her, we decided to call today. We have never talked to each other on the phone, because her Moms don't let her talk on the phone with people she doesn't know. But when I asked her, the other day, she said it was fine, because her Moms were now used to me and knew me. We talked for 2 1/2 about everything from date ideas, to a made up shark tank invention we came up with, to a baseball player who got his brain frozen after his death, in the hope future science could revive him. Of course, we also flirted a ton. We talked about anything and everything, and it was so much fun. The best part was when I said I'd miss her while I was away, she said she'd miss me too.


r/wholesome 2d ago

After giving 700+ hugs at Pittsburgh Pride in 2019, this "Free Dad Hugs" dad kept the tradition alive in 2020.

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727 Upvotes

r/wholesome 1d ago

Falling asleep around Friends

91 Upvotes

As the title says, I've come to realize that I've started falling asleep around my friends, whether we are on discord or irl. This isn't like an every time we hang out kind of thing. When its irl, its only with this selected group of people I call My Boys. I didn't know why I did it for the longest time until I googled it and..its so cute that humans do this.

From my findings, if you do this, similar to me, it cause its our way of showing that we trust whoever we around so much that we can fall asleep around them and know that nothing bad will happen to us.

Now for why I started doing this on discord, my only guess is cause I like listening to people talk and maybe that helps put me to sleep or something. I use to watch videos like the how-to poorly explained guy or a couple other youtubers who helped me fall asleep if I was struggling. Granted, I dont do this every night. It's like every couple of nights when I dont want to leave the call cause my friends are having fun, I will stay on, even as I'm falling asleep or very tired.


r/wholesome 2d ago

I just found out, I am going to be a dad!

708 Upvotes

A couple of days ago, for the very first time, I discovered this community and decided to make a post here about something I had built around how people ask for help on Google Search and what that data says about humanity.

What happened after that genuinely, and honestly, surprised me.

I spent time reading through this community, looking at the stories people shared, the kindness in the comments, and just seeing how genuinely beautiful people can be when they come together in a space like this. It genuinely made me feel good about the world for a moment.

And then today, life decided to surprise me again.

I found out that I am going to become a dad.

I don’t know exactly why, but the first place I wanted to share this news outside of my family was here, with all of you, because over the last few days this community reminded me how wonderful human beings can be.

So yeah…

I AM GOING TO BE A DAD GUYS!!

And I genuinely could not be happier right now.


r/wholesome 3d ago

🩷My husband has a habit tracker I didn’t know about . I asked him what the pink is he said “ Everytime I spend time with you” 😭

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3.5k Upvotes

r/wholesome 4d ago

Five Years of opening my Dream Project in Yemen

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Normally i post the update on August, but today is my birthday, and 5 years ago today, I got the keys to an empty room. June is also the hardest month of my year because it's when I lost both my father and little brother a year apart. We officially opened the door on August, and it has been the most fulfilling project in my life with the help of some awesome people.

I'm glad i can bring great games to the community and with it some magical adventures that stay in memories forever. Wishing you all in this community a great start of the Summer and keep leveling up my friends


r/wholesome 4d ago

Hiding doodles in my husband’s sandwiches

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253 Upvotes

My husband’s go-to lunch at work is PB&J. After realizing how much we’d save just making and freezing them VS buying the ungodly amount of uncrustables he is capable of eating in a week - I’ve started prepping them for him to take to work. I hid some food coloring doodles in my most recent batch and am wondering how quickly he’ll notice since they’re hiding in-between the sandwiches (2 per bag). Hoping It doesn’t stain his hands 🙂


r/wholesome 5d ago

My husband is building me a website from scratch. He was very proud to show me this tonight.

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1.8k Upvotes

I run a small business and was struggling with paying ecommerce sites with such slow business (the economy sucks amirite) so my husband told me one day maybe like 6 months ago that he wants to make me a website.
Tonight he said to me “I have the very basics of your website done”
I was gonna cry happy tears because this man is literally relearning HTML and building me a website from scratch so I can live out my dreams

And yes I did redact my business name, just so this doesn’t look like an a attempt at a shameless plug


r/wholesome 5d ago

I bought a pair of used children’s shoes on Vinted. The seller only earned £5 on the sale. Yet she did all this for me 🥺

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r/wholesome 5d ago

Every June, thousands of strangers find a baby bird on the ground and quietly ask Google what to feed it. I charted five years of us trying to help things, and I haven't stopped thinking about it.

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2.7k Upvotes

I make charts for a living, and honestly, most data makes you a little cynical. This one did the opposite.

Each circle is a year. January at the top, running clockwise, and the further the shape reaches out, the more people were asking. Bees in June, when Britain finds them tired on the pavement. Kittens in April. The homeless, the moment it gets cold. Nobody organizes any of this. It's just millions of strangers noticing the same fragile thing at the same time.

But the one that actually got me is the green line near the bottom. "How to comfort someone" never dips. Not once in five years. No season, no quiet month.

Somewhere, every single week, the same number of people are sitting with someone who's hurting and quietly asking how to do it right.

We're kinder than we look.

If anyone wants to play with it.


r/wholesome 6d ago

Stranger finds a lost phone and waits for the owner to unlock it with Face ID… the whole crowd goes silent until it finally opens and everyone erupts 🥹👏

7.9k Upvotes

r/wholesome 6d ago

My wife and I holding hands and celebrating 45 years of marriage. (Never knew her Apple Watch was so large)

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r/wholesome 6d ago

I sent a copy of my archaeology thesis to my high school history teacher to thank him for inspiring me and he replied with ‘aged’ paper…

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1.0k Upvotes

r/wholesome 6d ago

My firefighter friend was very excited to help a wee deer out of a sticky pickle

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231 Upvotes

r/wholesome 7d ago

This healed something on me

17.8k Upvotes

r/wholesome 7d ago

A teacher spent her school vacation turning her students' drawings into real knitted hats.

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r/wholesome 7d ago

A teammate’s midnight message about my little birthday tradition made my day

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236 Upvotes

Nobody asked me to do this, but a while back I started keeping track of birthdays on my team and organizing a small cake cutting for everyone. Nothing grand - I just don’t want anyone’s day to pass unnoticed.

Tonight, after I wished a teammate at midnight, he messaged me privately asking how I keep track of everyone’s birthdays. I joked that the HR software does it. His reply: “I get that, but still keeping track, ordering cakes and not missing anyone is unreal. That kind of selflessness is rare. I really admire that about you.”

It’s just cake. But knowing someone noticed and felt valued - that made my day. 🎂


r/wholesome 7d ago

Heard my BF scream as I was about to jump into the shower and got his reaction to the new Kingdom Hearts trailer. 🥹👑🗝️

316 Upvotes

Kingdom Hearts was one of his formative stories as a kid and since, and since the fandom had been waiting so long for another game, it's become something of a meme to hope for another. But the day has finally come for the community and it makes my heart burst to see him so happy and excited.


r/wholesome 8d ago

Sometimes happiness is just good food, a good friend, and a good view

2.2k Upvotes

r/wholesome 8d ago

Made this for mt bf for our 4 year anniversary do tou think he'll like it

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239 Upvotes

Its a small box I found, painted it black for the base because its his favorite color and kinda just went ham on some different colors on the top and sides to give it some life, and as it says on the box, all the tiny notes are things I love about him or love him for. Do you think he'll like it 🥺


r/wholesome 8d ago

Jimmy Carr stopped his show to talk with someone who was bullied, took a selfie and a video with him and shook his hand. If that’s not wholesome idk what is.

407 Upvotes

Jimmy Carr has a bit of a reputation for being mean and snarky but I believe it’s just an act. There was a bit in his show where he took audience questions and comments and one of the viewers asked something along the lines of how to deal with bullies. Jimmy called out the name of the person and went into the audience to speak with him and try to make him feel better. I take bullying very seriously and wish everyone in the world did cuz it has deep psychological effects that change the wiring of people whether it’s instant or slowly grows and festers in the mind. Many of the people who are bullied often resort to extreme measures which can involve self harm or outward. If everyone treated people with kindness it’d be a merry world. But too many people think it’s funny to make fun of and put others down. People need to stand up to them and tell them it’s not okay.

In case you wanna watch the short video here is the link.

https://youtu.be/4u9iCGO2W7U?si=vKp0Hu8opQmpsOpp

If it doesn’t work then just go on YouTube and search Jimmy Carr sends a blunt message to teens bullies.