“The final straw came on my birthday. My best friend told me my husband had tried to sleep with her while he was drunk. I was in a daze for months.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I was afraid to be alone with him. My phone records were being watched meticulously. I wasn’t allowed to work past a certain time. I felt like I brought this on because I couldn’t give him a child.’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I began to tell people. ‘No heartbeat’ is what I sent. I was numb. We went to a bar, and yes, I ordered a drink.’
“I did feel like I was doing something wrong by drinking with a fetus inside me. However, we needed it.”
By LJ Herman -
‘It was the most touching thing I’ve seen. I hope this lady finds peace through this tribute.’ Stranger pays for 1st birthday cake anonymously and the reason why will leave you in tears
“I asked what the customer name was, thinking she was paying for a specific person. She then started to tear up.”
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‘I heard this noise – a crackling noise coming from my lungs. The moment I realized my lungs sounded like Rice Krispies, my monitor started blaring. I was drowning in my own fluid. Literally.’
“My mother-in-law told my husband, ‘You get back there and get some answers or you are going to have a dead wife.’ She was right.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Sure, it’s easy to sign up for a walk or sport a pink ribbon – but, do you want to know what most women with breast cancer despise? All. Of. That. Sh*t.’
“Do you know what is said when a woman dies from breast cancer? That she ‘lost’ a battle. No, she didn’t. She lost everything, but not a battle. This is NOT in our hands. We don’t lose because we aren’t strong enough, we die because there is no cure.”
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‘A pregnant friend of mine asked me, ‘How is it possible that moms get depression? Isn’t motherhood joyous?’ I spat my wine out in her face.’
“Remember you said in pregnancy, ‘Oh my mother will watch the baby while I rest/recover/get my nails done?’ – only to realize your baby doesn’t want to be anywhere but ON YOU and no one, NO ONE, can look after this baby properly except you?”
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‘I had a miscarriage at age 18. Someone told me, ‘It must be because you’re not married.’’
“I started dating my husband at 13 years old. We got married at 19. I had my 1st miscarriage at 20 years old. I didn’t tell anyone. I went back to work the next day, taking orders at a drive-in, while someone was complaining about their kids.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘If you joined the gym for the childcare. If crumbs fall out of your bra when you take it off. If the last thing you read all the way through was reviews on a new sippy cup.’
“If you’ve ever dropped your kids off at Sunday School and thought, ‘I wonder if they’d know if we went and got brunch instead.'”
By LJ Herman -
‘Dear husband, please don’t give up on us.’
“I remember us as newlyweds and how obnoxious we used to be. Holding hands everywhere, sneaking kisses. I wish I could be that girl for you, but I just can’t. I’m gross. I’m exhausted. If one more person touches me, I may lose it.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I accidentally got pregnant with my best friend’s baby, and I wouldn’t change a thing.’
“I took out my phone and, with a violently shaking hand, I called Egg. ‘I did another, and it’s positive. There’s a cross. It’s faint, but it’s definitely there.'”
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