“In the absolute best way possible. And I wouldn’t change it, I wouldn’t change me. Not for the world.”
Motherhood Ruined Me
To My Dearest Son On The Anniversary Of Your Death
“You taught me not to sweat the small stuff in life.”
‘Someone I loved had been expertly lying to me for the entire length of our relationship.’: After experiencing infidelity, woman says ‘once you’ve recognized the true capacity of the pain, it gives you the power to create something beautiful out of it’
“I woke up every morning thinking maybe it was just a sick joke. All at once, I was with a stranger instead of the person I thought I knew so well.”
‘There’s this stigma attached to parenting that for some reason, makes people think they’ll lose themselves when they have kids.’
“As if it’s going to change who they are. Some people plan it. Some people fall into it. And some people avoid it simply because they think they’re not ready.”
To The Girl Who Changed My World In 4 Minutes And 51 Seconds
“You had already decided this would be your final surgery. You had courageously fought cancer once, and came out victorious on the other side, only to have the cancer return with a vengeance.”
After 13 Years Of Marriage And A Tragic Accident, My Wife Forgot Who I Was
“She had no memory of our wedding. We renewed our wedding vows surrounded by her amazing doctors. She is falling in love with me a second time.”
‘My Facebook dinged and woke me. I figured it was a random message from a friend. It wasn’t. ‘Could it be?!’ My heart sank.’: Adopted woman discovers biological family in message she nearly ‘ignored’
“The day became more life-changing by the minute. I soon learned who my biological father was. For 36 years, I wondered why I looked the way I did, where my personality traits came from. Yet, I was not searching for a dad. I already had one. An AMAZING one. I didn’t want to disrupt any lives.”
‘When I was 12 years old, my older sister died by suicide. She was my whole world. This year alone I’ve had over 20 suicide attempts.’
“I had Bell’s Palsy. I was severely bullied. I would go around at lunch asking to sit with people, and every group would tell me no. I would sit by the trashcans and get food thrown at me.”
‘When will we hear the patter of tiny feet? ‘You don’t want to be OLD parents, do you?’: Family adopts 2 children after struggling for years with infertility
“The phone call that changed our life. It was 8 p.m. on a Wednesday when the phone rang. It was our social worker. ‘How would you like to come and meet a baby boy? He’s almost 6 weeks old.’ My scream must have deafened her. We’d been waiting to adopt a child for two years and before that had spent five long, desperate years of infertility tests and treatments to try for one of our own.”
My Son Has Been Gone For 1,825 Days
“A piece of me died the day my son took his final breath. But through the tears, I smile. In my son’s short time, he changed my life.”