“My brain was telling me: ‘Look at the facts. She hides her phone at night, pays for everything in cash, and spends the night out multiple times a week.’ On the other hand, my heart was telling me: ‘She would never cheat. We are beyond close and each other’s best friend. I’m sure this is just a big misunderstanding.'”
“We should have each other’s back. We are the only ones who really know what you’re going through as a woman, a wife, a mother, a widow, a working mom, a stay-at-home mom.”
“I landed on the Facebook page of a man with big, blue, almond-shaped eyes eerily like my own. Could it be him?! Oh my God! My mind was racing a million miles a minute when my husband came home from work. He saw me on the couch, unshowered, shaking, with the world’s biggest smile plastered on my face. I couldn’t hold it in. ‘Babe! I think I found him!’ He didn’t even know I existed. I kept pinching myself to make sure this was real.”
“It’s important for you to know…. my husband is a good man. A good, quiet, solid man of simple tastes and pleasures. And yet, somehow, he has managed to love an incredible number and variety of women both before and during our marriage.”
“So here’s a few tips and tricks on how to answer when asked the typical questions big families get.”
“Growing up I asked my mom how she knew my dad was the one she was going to marry, and she always said, ‘When you know, you know.’ I was in 7th grade when I met Micah.”
“My heart began to race. Here was this woman, my mother-in-law, risking her life to give me the best gift of my life. I tried to hold back my tears.”
“Chances are you’d still have nothing if she wasn’t right there with you. I know I wouldn’t.”
“When I was thin, a guy told me I was ‘too skinny,’ and that ‘only dogs like bones.’ I felt depleted, like I couldn’t win.”
“I relapsed and spiraled downhill very fast. I stopped going to my drug and alcohol counselor. I started cancelling visits with my son because I was ‘sick’. I felt so hopeless and unworthy as a parent and human being. Then, my case manager showed up and reminded me I was in it for my son. I literally broke down and cried. I told her to leave, and she refused. ‘I will be with you for anything you need.’ She reassured me I had the potential to do this.”
