“I couldn’t WAIT for the kids to get home from school, not because I missed them, but because it was a mark of transition from day to evening drinking.”
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“I couldn’t WAIT for the kids to get home from school, not because I missed them, but because it was a mark of transition from day to evening drinking.”
“Would I need my esophagus REMOVED? My mind was filled with questions. The nurse couldn’t even PRONOUNCE the disease.”
‘Are you sure it’s her?’ I hoped he was wrong, but I knew he wasn’t. The drive there was a rainy, tear-filled blur. ‘She’s making donuts…’”
“We had the choice of either staying miserable, or changing our story to become positive and full of hope. No matter how lost, difficult or heartbreaking your co-parenting situation might be, it CAN be changed.”
“’Yep, I’m in the hospital again.’ I have never known what it was like to be ‘not sick.’ Here is my conundrum: I am actually very happy. I’m choosing to live.”
“It’s a week I see in my head every day. Watching this person who made you, who you loved more than most, who knew you more than ANYONE, just wither in front of you.”
“The world shifted for me the moment Chuck said, ‘I want to have ten kids.’ You would think thirteen kids would be enough. And it was. But that didn’t stop us from deciding to add just one more baby.”
“They need someone to hold them at night to mend the holes in their hearts. They need someone to say, ‘It’s going to be okay,’ when tears come, or ‘Good job, buddy,’ when they start pedaling their tricycle on their own.”
“My parents freaked out. ‘You’ll ruin your family.’ I was only doing what my mother had done for my parents. We hugged so hard when those two pink lines finally appeared.”
“There was a miscommunication about bringing my son lunch at school, and as a result, he was upset. I felt awful. The incident was small, but it pushed me over the edge. And I EXPLODED.”