“How we got home in one piece that day is still a mystery. How we drove through the tears, I don’t know.”
‘Your husband will never father a child. Don’t bother with artificial insemination because he will eventually resent bringing up another man’s child and probably leave you.’
‘No one teaches you how to love a child you didn’t plan to have.’
“When the same people who told you that you ruined your life are smiling ear to ear at your baby shower a few months later, it’s hard.”
My secret grief: Over 35, single, and childless
“The loss I’m not allowed to mourn.”