“I was pregnant and with my kids’ dad at the time, so I didn’t give him the time of day. He told me he had herpes. Just like that. After a year, and he is just now telling me.”
- Love What Matters
- Health
“I was pregnant and with my kids’ dad at the time, so I didn’t give him the time of day. He told me he had herpes. Just like that. After a year, and he is just now telling me.”
“I know immediately when someone is being genuine with me, and when someone is just ‘getting along to get along.'”
“I’m convinced my husband is dead if he’s even five minutes late. I can’t drive behind log trucks because I get actual full-on mental pictures of the post-accident carnage. But I do a terrific job of ‘pretending.'”
“She has taught me so much, led me home, and reminded me of my humanity. I love her.”
“The silence was better than him not being here. I’d get an email from him just simply saying, ‘I love you.’ In between heartache and the grief of losing my dad, I was letting go of my 7-year marriage to a man I realized never loved the REAL me.”
“Only 18, I burst into tears, thinking my life was over. Now, I can only thank the doctor for giving me a reason to prove them wrong.”
“No work is meaningless, no job mundane. When we seek to do our work, whatever it may be, with a heart of joy, even scrubbing toilets can touch an entire nation.”
“At 16, my health deteriorated. I was oxygen-dependent 24 hours a day. I was tired of being breathless all the time and coughing non-stop. One morning, that life-changing phone call came.”
“They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die, but it was different for me. I wasn’t scared.”
“I couldn’t process what I’d heard. I still haven’t.”