“Often our first is when we are young, in high school even. It’s the idealistic love—the one that seems like the fairy tales we read as children. In this type of love, how others view us is more important than how we actually feel. It’s a love that looks right.”
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“If our kids learn habits that can be sustainable and responsible young, they’ll stick with them into adulthood.”
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“He pats my shoulder kindly and before walking away he says, ‘Everything is going to be okay. God always has a plan.’”
‘This picture of me is blurry, and so is how I have been feeling. I am crapped out.’
“The truth is that, in the summertime, while I enjoy these extra moments with my children, I am also a mess because of it.”
‘I grew up in a time where you could drink from the hose. And I survived.’
“Nobody told my mom she was ruining our lives because we played until the street lights were on. But now as moms, we don’t survive.”
‘He was so wiggly coming out he made it hard to catch him! We were so overwhelmed, he was so beautiful.’: Parents welcome ‘perfect rainbow baby boy’ after pregnancy loss
“We had a surprise pregnancy. Unfortunately, that ended in a loss of our little one which hit us pretty hard. We choose to leave everything up to fate and not prevent another future pregnancy. Sure enough, 5 months later we were expecting another little one! And again, it ended in a loss. So, we chose to hold off on the idea. Turns out fate had other things in mind.”
‘I throw one of these in the skimmer basket and… holla bing holla boom! The cloudiness left and my sponge looks like this.’
“Everyone knows my pool is green by this time of the year. My daughter spotted this idea and I figured why not try it.”
‘I was living a double life. I’d go to college. Then I’d hang out at trap houses, cut dope and use drugs intravenously.’: Addict says he was ‘miraculously healed’ and had ‘no withdrawals symptoms’
“The first time I ever injected methamphetamine I knew I was going to have a problem – because it was the best feeling I had ever felt. I dropped out of college and went on a binge. I was now forging checks, stealing from my family, selling drugs, and breaking into houses to support my habit. I never thought I would be able to get clean and sober.”
‘Who do you belong to?,’ asked the wedding photographer, to our 19-year-old foster son.
“’He’s ours,’ I said. His eyes met mine for just a second. He smiled.”
‘I got out of bed, got dressed, and left my apartment with no intentions of ever returning. I then pulled out my phone to request an Uber to a bridge in my area.’
“I began walking onto the bridge, passing a sign that held the suicide prevention lifeline number on it. ‘They can’t help me,’ I thought.”