“I put on a show for the sake of others, all the while denying myself the opportunity to live authentically.”
‘I spent my whole life trying to fit in, suppressing the things about me that made me different.’: Woman diagnosed with autism at 41
I Am The Divorced Widow Society Overlooks
“I grieved like a widow, but I technically wasn’t one to the world. I wasn’t granted extended bereavement time off through work. There were no community meal trains set up. There was no GoFundMe pages created to help with the unexpected funeral costs. I wasn’t the one who had the final say for his obituary or funeral.”
‘She’d look back on her life and think SHE was the reason I drank. It was just too much.’: Mom details sobriety journey, daughter’s battle with Type 1 Diabetes
“There was no intervention. No one said ‘We think you have a problem.’ There was no rock bottom. It was waking up one morning with my daughter asleep in my arms next to me and worrying about her future.”
‘It’s been years since he could ‘see’ my face. But he got to hear me laughing through my tears as I recited my vows.’: Woman shares her marriage, pregnancy journey with husband’s vision loss
“It makes me sad to know he couldn’t see me on our wedding day, or when we were engaged, or when I told him I loved him for the first time. But love has overcome all of these sad truths.”
‘But that’s IMPOSSIBLE!’ His vasectomy failed and reality sunk in.’: Mom shocked by 4th pregnancy, ‘It was meant to be’
“We were having a 4th baby in less than 5 years.”
‘My husband came home and said, ‘I want to start my own company.’ Just like that, he quit his well-paying, secure job as a plumber.’: Woman shares reminder to pursue your dreams
“We heard, ‘Starting your own business is a big risk.’ ‘You could lose all your money.’ ‘It won’t work out. That’s a huge risk with kids to feed.’ See that building behind us? This is our ‘we made it’ picture.”
‘I’m never going to be who I was before he died. Nor do I want to. And that’s OKAY.’: Woman shares recovery story after grieving husband’s death, ‘I know he’s happy for us’
“Someone told me I’d grieve FOREVER, so that’s what I believed.”
‘We were so focused on building a family, we forgot we ARE a family.’: Woman details infertility journey, ‘We have so much love for each other’
“What I really wanted was a house full of love. And that’s what I have.”
The ‘Perfect’ Family Is A Myth, And It’s Time We Realize It
“People could us see arguing with each other. People could see us gritting our teeth and communicating via dagger glares. And for a little while, right there in the middle of an amusement park, I almost cried. Where did I go wrong?”
‘The moment we saw Wesley, it was love at first sight. I was his Mommy, and he was mine.’: Boy finds ‘forever family’ after fate pairs him with couple battling infertility
“The path is not always straight, but you will always get to where you are supposed to be.”