“She gave me a car, a phone, and a bed to sleep in. In return I gave her lies, sleepless nights, and stole everything I possibly could.”
‘I took hostages everywhere I went, and the first one was my grandmother. Loving, kind, and elderly made her the perfect target for my addiction.’
‘We were rushed to ultrasound. ‘Everyone PRAY!’ tumbling out of my mouth as I was wheeled down the corridor. The ultrasound confirmed the doctor’s words. No movement, no pulsing heart.’
“My contractions stopped, and my blood pressure bottomed out. I remember hearing my husband scream my name as I saw the world fade to black.”
She asked if he was ok and he just yelled, ‘My wife! My wife!’
“I yelled to my husband, ‘I can’t… I can’t…’ I surrendered my exhausted body to the water. It was at that second a complete stranger reached out to me…”
‘Today is my parent’s anniversary. My dad is on hospice with only a short time left from cancer. We set up one last anniversary dinner for them to remember.’
“Their love story is beautiful. But most of all, he taught us all how to live, and now he is showing us all how to die. With grace.”
‘I was ignorant enough to think a 2-year-old wasn’t going through any trauma by tragically losing both of his parents in a matter of 12 days.’
“In my head, he was young enough that he was completely unaware of what was really happening. I truly believed he would walk into our family and things would go smoothly.”
‘The woman next to me in this photo is the birth mother to 2 of our 3 children. Our relationship is unconventional and odd to most.’
“Pffft. You are effing crazy if you think I’m going to do that. I absolutely will NOT befriend them. It’s unforgivable, inhumane, and downright impossible to forgive ADULTS who do the sort of things that put them in the situations they are in. They don’t deserve my empathy.”
A Peek Inside The Life Of An Autism Mom
“I am an autism mom. When people hear that, they often think I have a child who has autism. While that is true, I am also autistic myself.”
‘I joined the Navy just five months prior to ‘Pearl Harbor.’: 94-year-old veteran share words of wisdom
“Growing up in the Depression, I guess we all felt a little deprived. But when I look back on it, it turned out to be one of the greatest gifts we had, knowing hard work will get you where you want to go.”
‘He told her our baby would have a 2% chance to make it, and if he did, he would be mentally handicapped. A handicapped child is still a child, and still deserves to be loved.’
“We were frantic! I called 16 different hospitals in 3 states. We got her transferred. They were going to do everything possible to try to get Molli to the 22 week mark and bring Cullen into the world as healthy as he could be.”
‘Your sister was in an accident. Her car was hit by a train. She didn’t make it.’: Sister suffers from PTSD after losing sibling, admits ‘I’m having a hard time swallowing that pill’
“We were texting. I said, ‘Punkin, we’ll talk later.’ My later didn’t go the way I had planned. My momma was on the phone screaming. What am I supposed to do? My daddy. I’ve got to get to my daddy. Where are my brothers? Do they know? We planned every painful step of her memorial. We had to pick out her clothes, jewelry, the box we’d lay her in. I’m done. I’m done hiding.”