“It always seems to go the same. One person got to leave the house. The other person looked after the little ones. They struggled to leave the house because the tantrums and sickness is wearing them thin.”
‘Do you know that conversation at the end of the day? That conversation where you talk to your partner about the day and what happened to each of you?’
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“I realized why I hadn’t given up on someone so toxic for so long. I just wanted to be loved by a man. I wanted to feel acceptance from a man.”
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“It’s the BEST THING I’VE DONE YET! She forever wants to be held and now I get my break.”
‘I love you, but it’s really important I have a blood child.’ I tried for 10 years. I saw my dreams go up in smoke.’: Woman with PCOS, Endometriosis survives near-death experience, gets pregnant after decade of trying
“I was in and out of consciousness. The doctor grabbed this huge syringe and needle (I mean HUGE). I thought he was going to stick it in my stomach, but he put it somewhere else…inside me, through my cervix and into my stomach. I just knew I was about to have to terminate my baby. They weren’t even giving me a choice. They had to cut me wide open. I had a C-section scar but no baby to show for it.”
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“You will smile and cry at the same time.”
‘The scale said ‘error,’ which meant I was heavier than 375 pounds’: Man loses 180 pounds eating ‘junk food’ every day
“My biggest motivation came from watching the numbers on the scale drop, even though I was eating all the food I loved to eat. I was doing the impossible.”
A Step-Mom Wants Dedicated Dads to Continue to Fight for Their Kids, Even Against Hope
“This is for the fathers who are fighting the good fight — fathers who are doing all they can to be seen as good men in the eyes of their children. It’s for the fathers who should have a sacred place in their children’s lives, because that’s exactly where they belong.”
‘So God made a sister’
“He knew you needed another set of eyes to bear witness to all the glorious magic and madness of your childhood – someone who could feel the ache of memories long past and smile with knowing eyes when you talk about the good ole’ days.”
‘I got the call at 5:30 a.m. My brother was gone. It felt like someone had taken a sledge hammer to my heart.’ Woman tragically loses 19-year-old brother to opioid crisis
“It’s so crazy that you can peacefully go to sleep at night and then wake up to the tragic news that your 19 year old brother had died. Why in the world is my LITTLE brother, who’s only 19, laying in a casket?”
‘This isn’t just a toilet bowl. It’s a metaphor for a communication problem, not because either of us are full of sh*t either.’
“Every time I went to the toilet after my husband, it was moved to a different spot. I’d move it back to the sweet spot, back to the front. For days, this went on. I’d move it, he would move it out of the way. This upset me, and I didn’t know why.”