“I would witness dual sides of his personality. One would be full of love and laughter as a family man and the other would be animalistic and cruel. I felt like his prey. An outsider greatly misunderstood. I began to question whether or not it was my fault and if I’d somehow given him the wrong impression. I was sworn to secrecy.”
‘STOOOOPPPP!’ I could no longer rationalize his strange and uncomfortable behavior.’: Sexual assault survivor bravely speaks up after 20 years, urges ‘you are not your story’
‘I thought moving mom and dad to an assisted living home would give us a moment to breathe. If I said I was suffocating, that would not be far from an exaggeration.’
“My dad stares off into the distance as he tries to figure out how it all came to this. Why is the woman he loves here, but gone?”
‘Marriage doesn’t always look this pretty beyond the altar. But on the day you said ‘I do,’ how could you imagine anything less?’
“You say the words. You mean the words. But you want to get to the good stuff. The party. The wedding night. You don’t process how those words, should you be faced with them, will completely change your life.”
‘I’ve never been with anyone with this lifestyle nor have I have been with a girl, but now that I’ve gotten to know him, I don’t want it any other way.’: Woman dates trans person, details amazing journey He is the love of my life.’
“I didn’t think someone like her would be willing to love someone like me. But I was wrong.”
She said, ‘NO. You’re going to go sit down and enjoy your dinner, and I will be there to sit with her!’
“I went to find our waitress to ask if she could please bring my food out in a To-go box because we were going out to sit in the car…”
‘I am a mom of 3-year-old triplets. I have heard ‘I don’t love you today’ every single day this week.’
“My worth is not defined in the mean things my 3-year-old’s say to me, but the ‘I don’t love you’s’ hurt.”
‘My initial reaction was to text the teacher and ask if she could hold one for him. But then I thought, ‘No, you’d better not.’: Mom grapples with giving son special treatment
“And then it dawned on me: This. This is why moms are so exhausted.”
‘I can do this.’ I’d get my baggies, needle, tie off my hand, and in the heroin went. ‘Just not today.’ I was using in secret. All day, every day.: Woman overcomes drug addiction, now works as nurse fighting ‘the opiate epidemic’
“I’d snort a bunch of pills before a party, drink, pass out, and wake up completely unaware of what happened. My boyfriend was suspicious, but I covered up my drug use. That was before the needle. I said I’d never use one. Needles were for junkies, and I was not that. But my dealer shot me up. It was the most amazing, intense rush of warm, pure happiness I’d ever experienced, and I’d chase that feeling for years. There are so many times I should’ve been arrested, should’ve overdosed, should’ve died, but I didn’t.”
‘In truth, I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know how to be (just) me anymore. I have found such comfort and safety in being a mother.’
“I was married young. I was pregnant soon after. I followed my husband’s career and livelihood. And all I keep hearing is: ‘Well, what are you going to make of this, Wendy?'”
‘The smell of putrid decay invaded my nostrils. I covered my nose, searching for the source of that smell. There, in the corner of the closet, sat a dark blue trash can.’: Mom recounts funny way she teaches her kids a lesson
“I briefly and calmly asked my kids some leading questions, tactically trying to prevent the lies.”
‘She grabbed the two babies, was crawling, saying she couldn’t breathe.’ Heroic mom dies shielding 10-month-old daughter from gunfire
“My granddaughter, thank God she’s still here. As my daughter tried to protect the kids, she lost her life. We consider her a hero.”
‘There’s no ‘how to become a widow’ class. Before he died, I never thought about what his first pet’s name was to look up my bank account balance.’: Widow describes things she was forced to learn after husband died of pancreatic cancer
“There was NO way I was having a discussion with him about the things I should know before he dies because there was NO way I was going to make him feel like I was planning his death.”
My Daughter’s Hilarious School Photo Fail
“I immediately dropped my phone, laughing hysterically. Our little 1st grader was now hilariously blended into every single background, from the regular single-color backgrounds to the scenic views.”
‘I am 31, and I am getting a hysterectomy. I waited 10 YEARS before I did anything. I’ve finally had enough.’: Woman details years of suffering through PCOS and endometriosis
“All the doctors told me I was too young to make any rash decisions.”
After 6 Miscarriages, 9 IVF Transfers, And 5 Egg Retrievals, My Best Friend Offered To Be Our Surrogate
“I lost my dad suddenly 3 years ago. I knew then I would name my baby after him. After all our struggles, our sweet Scottie finally arrived, of all the days, on my dad’s birthday. Talk about coming full circle! There was not a dry eye in the room. She was worth absolutely ALL the heartbreak.”
‘I was originally told it was Eczema. He was seen later that day and instantly rushed to hospital. 3 days into our stay, we finally had a diagnosis – Herpes.’: Mom talks infant’s journey with herpes diagnosis
“It is just as deadly as meningitis in babies if not treated right away because it starts to attack their brain.”
‘Well, Bobbie, that’s just what men do,’ she said to me tenderly. ‘My uncle did that to me too.’
“My eyes grew large as I looked at her and said, ‘No. That is not what men do.'”
‘This is the quilt that saw the loss of the mother. This is the quilt that witnessed a man grieving for his wife, but determined to live a full life for his children.’
“360 days after the loss of a mother, came the loss of a father. Grandbabies who will never meet their grandparents will surely know them by their legacy.”
‘Brandy, will you marry me’ was painted on his belly. He was down on one knee. I was in shock.’: After husband’s sudden death, wife’s powerful tribute will bring you to tears
“I sent a text asking how his day was. No answer. I called, he didn’t answer. I started to worry. I left work and drove home. As I pulled onto my street, I got an eerie feeling. I got inside, walked up the stairs to our room, and that is when I knew. He was gone.”
‘I knew something was very wrong by the way the doctor was acting. The police came, and I couldn’t understand what was going on. Why were they there?’
“They wouldn’t let me fly with her, and looking back, I now know it’s because they didn’t know who had hurt her.”
Dear Abusers: I Will Raise My Sons Right, So Your Daughters Are Safer Than I Was From You
“For all the men who were once teenagers doing ‘boys will be boys’ atrocities, thinking they are sitting there with their beautiful family and all is forgotten.”
I Started A ‘Need Box’ In My Classroom, And It Was My Best Teaching Decision Yet
“The first week, two boys let me know about a bullying situation. We got it taken care of.”
‘We ended up accidentally getting pregnant after knowing each other for only a month. A few weeks later, that dream dissolved before our eyes.’: Mom suffers 2 miscarriages, gives birth to 2 ‘beautiful rainbow babies’
“I went into shock, paralyzed by what I’d just seen. All of a sudden, I heard a noise I couldn’t recognize. It was coming from me. A deep, loud, moaning scream; the sound of grief and disbelief. We were wheeled up to delivery and I remember a man telling my husband, ‘Good luck and congratulations,’ as he thought we were going to deliver a healthy baby. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we’d ever have to pick an urn for one of our children.”
‘Not everyone knows what the TEAL PUMPKIN is. It lets trick-or-treaters with allergies know you have stuff for them.’: Mom’s important reminder this Halloween season
“There are kids out there that can’t even have candy. As a kid with a nut allergy, I really encourage everyone to put out the teal pumpkin.”
‘He wanted to get meth, so we did. I’d been clean for a month. I took a pregnancy test. There was a tiny faint line.’: Addicted couple gets clean after learning of pregnancy, says their son is their ‘saving grace’
“I was so excited listening that drugs didn’t cross my mind. I was terrified after he came I’d get bad off again, but there was no way I was going to let someone else raise my baby. We used each other as support. Every night we’d lay down and listen to the baby’s heartbeat.”