“It was hard to hold friendships from school. Someone in my ‘family’ told me I would probably lose all of my friends because of this. I remember getting stares and whispers from a lady at a local parade. I had just assumed this was the new normal for me.”
“She would get upset I couldn’t cuddle with her while I fed the baby and she got frustrated when I constantly had to say ‘in a minute’ in response to every request she had. I felt like I was letting my toddler down.”
“Every day from now on is just one day closer to you. And when my day comes where I will join you in heaven… I will run/fly/teleport, whatever gets me to you quickest so I can hold you in my arms again.”
“When we became parents, I knew what I didn’t want our holidays to be filled with. We have no agenda but to be together and make memories.”
“I sustained terrible wounds from escaping over a barbed-wire fence, and yet my girlfriend rushed me to the doctor, not him. I’ll never forget crying on the phone when one of his family members said, ‘He really struggles with empathy.’”
“They teach our children not just academics but so much more. They make our kids feel safe, happy, and loved, and for this, I will be forever grateful.”
“The world needs a little bit of different every now and then. The world needs more zombie-themed Christmas cards. The world needs you to be YOU.”
“The harder I tried to insert myself into situations where she wanted daddy, the more she pushed back. When I got pregnant with our second child, I secretly hoped she would get insanely jealous and start to prefer me – that definitely did not happen.”
“We never had another gift, or a fancy dinner. Someone saw me for who I am inside, not just a profile on a public Christmas tree.”
“‘When are you having babies?’ ‘Are you guys trying?’ ‘Don’t you want kids?’ Every single comment seared right into my soul like a hot knife.”
