“They don’t have to spend every paycheck on you, but they should spend their free time with you. They don’t have to bring you flowers every day, but they do have to encourage you to bloom.”

“They don’t have to spend every paycheck on you, but they should spend their free time with you. They don’t have to bring you flowers every day, but they do have to encourage you to bloom.”
“Jarrod isn’t a very emotional child, so him crying when we hugged Josiah really got me.”
“My intentions weren’t the best in the beginning. But slowly that changed: now it was about ME.”
“My husband of 7 years told me he didn’t want kids. I was utterly shocked and confused. We had already started saving for their education. I contemplated my choices, none of which were part of my plan. Divorcing someone I loved didn’t seem fair, but life without a family didn’t make sense to me.”
“As the man I love changes before my eyes, I try to take in and make the most of each new stage. If I were to ever lose him, I’d want to remember as much of him as I can. The good and the bad.”
“I had basically no money saved and no plan whatsoever. I pawned my engagement ring, which afforded me three months in an apartment, and borrowed two twin mattresses from my sister to put on the floor.”
“In the middle of trying on bras, my phone started to chime. I sat half-naked on the dressing room floor and let my friend tell me all the things. I let her vent till she couldn’t say another word. Because I am her person, and she is mine.”
“That house, your home, becomes the closet thing you get to going back in time, to reliving.”
“Yes, parenthood changes sex and intimacy a lot. No one will argue on that. But it’s not gone, it’s just different, and maybe that’s okay.”
“The little, simple things, I cannot make excuses for. He’s not at work, not out with his brothers watching the games. He’s. Not. Here. And that’s the hard truth those small things bring.”