“I got engaged 6 months after her diagnosis. My mom couldn’t help me plan the wedding we always dreamed about. It was like I had already lost my mom.”
‘She looked at me and said, ‘I don’t know what I don’t know.’ It broke my heart.’: Daughter shares journey as ‘care partner’ for mom with dementia, ‘We find joy EVERY day’
‘I asked him if he could see me. ‘You’re perfect.’ We never admitted the truth, but I think he knew.’: Widow recounts last months before losing husband to Melanoma
“When you’re fighting for your life, time goes so very fast. Instead of being measured in 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes, it is measured in soft smiles, gentle hugs, tender kisses, and never-ending love.”
‘I frantically searched the restroom of the store, including the trash, taking one paper towel out at a time.’: Woman reunited with lost family heirloom thanks to honest employee
“Two days after Christmas, my mother gave me a ring that was my grandmother’s. I was gratefully teary upon receiving it, knowing my mother was giving it specifically to me, trusting me with a special heirloom. Panic began to set in.”
‘If you make me choose, you won’t like seeing me walk out the door.’ A month later, I did just that. I restarted my life to have a child.’: Woman leaves toxic marriage, becomes single mom by choice
“I’d had four spinal surgeries. The medications surging through me could have caused anything from defects to a miscarriage. The doctors said if I wanted any chance to be a mother, I needed to be pregnant by the end of the year.”
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“The adrenaline subsided and the reality of life set in. I was breathless and frantic, on high alert for disturbance and danger every minute of the day and night. A cloud of depression and dread lowered. I was one of the lucky ones.”
‘She was almost not human with see through skin, so small she’d fit in the palms of our hands.’: Mom shares surprise pregnancy, micro-preemie’s NICU journey
“At 26 weeks, I just didn’t feel right. I started throwing up and noticed some off-color discharge. I began to have red flags come up, but I kept telling myself it was fine and I shouldn’t worry.”
‘I promise to love you as my own. I promise I will be the best wife for your dad.’: Tearful bride surprises stepson with sweet vows
“I know I wasn’t there the day you came into the world, I wasn’t there for your first steps or your first words, but I promise I will be there for many more of your firsts.”
‘My dear husband, you made me a wife, but cancer made me a widow. I now understand the true meaning of a strong bond of love.’: Widow shares grief journey 1 year after husband’s death
“I now wish so badly you had told me how to do life without you.”
‘He held his son within the thick prison walls, tears falling freely onto baby Wombat, who I was certain I would lose.’: Foster mom shares emotional realization son belongs with his birth father
“Although the trauma I assumed he came from may indeed be factual, I was called to admit that Dad, too, was just a product of systemic failures. And it was not about loving you regardless of knowing I will end up losing you. It was about the fact that one day, you might get to go back to your world, back to your people. Back to your Daddy, with whom you belong.”
‘I wrote a book only 31 people bought.’: Woman shares powerful reminder ‘you get one life, please your damn self’
“You get one life. Just one. And you can’t spend another second of yours trying to please other people.”