Amanda Doulos is a digital editor for Love What Matters based in New York City. She will graduate from Binghamton University with a Bachelor of English Literature and Spanish in Spring 2023. She loves staying involved as vice president of the mock trial team and secretary of Spanish Honor Society. In her free time, she loves reading, traveling, and spending time with friends.
“Just because she doesn’t have verbal words, doesn’t mean she has nothing to say. And Mason just sees the world in 4D. We are NOT ashamed.”
“I couldn’t WAIT for the kids to get home from school, not because I missed them, but because it was a mark of transition from day to evening drinking.”
“Would I need my esophagus REMOVED? My mind was filled with questions. The nurse couldn’t even PRONOUNCE the disease.”
“We had the choice of either staying miserable, or changing our story to become positive and full of hope. No matter how lost, difficult or heartbreaking your co-parenting situation might be, it CAN be changed.”
“It’s a week I see in my head every day. Watching this person who made you, who you loved more than most, who knew you more than ANYONE, just wither in front of you.”
“I HAD to stop before I destroyed the humans who loved me through every single moment of my life.”
“It’s too late for me, I’ll never get better.”
“You don’t get kudos for trying to do it all while neglecting your health.”
“‘Are they natural?’ Which really means, ‘Did you make these twins by yourself, or did you need help?’ I couldn’t run from the fact that nature, or God, never intended me to be a mom.”
“How could such a small heart already have to stop beating? All I wanted was for them to just stop mine instead. I wanted them to take my heart to fix hers.”
