“I began to get random phone calls about my wife’s nighttime activities. ‘She’s my soul mate. She’ll come around,’ I’d tell myself. She started hinting at divorce, but I’d stop the conversation dead in its tracks. Then, she stopped showing up. The defining moment for me was seeing all of my kids asleep at the front door, hoping to see their mom if she happened to come home that night. My babies needed me to be strong for them.”
‘People look at me and my 4 kids and assume I’m just giving mom some ‘kid-free’ time. I just laugh.’: Man becomes full-time dad after emotional divorce, realizes kids need ‘all of him’
‘My mother is suffering from breast cancer’: Deep insight into a family who deals with this ‘incomprehensible illness’ their very own way
“We have been avoiding tears. Always. Because of her 5-year-old daughter, because of hope, and friendship too.”
‘Please hide packages from husband’: Delivery man takes wife’s sarcastic doormat a little too seriously
“Everyone’s been asking ‘what does your husband think?'”
‘I had absolutely no idea that was the last morning I would ever clean up after him.’
“We don’t realize just how meaningful a pair of combat boots by the door really are.”
‘One day, I finally broke. I locked myself in the bathroom and cried alone until my eyes would barely open.’
“Maybe this is just what it’s like to have three kids,” I thought. “Maybe this is my new normal.”
‘I remember thinking ‘I’ll be happy when I get married.’: Woman says ‘sometimes life is simply about appreciating the drive’
“Our trajectory completely changed with the appearance of two little blue lines.”
‘I do most things halfway’: Mom’s candid admission as she’s ‘constantly interrupted by the small tribe of people I’ve created’
“There are a few things I do all the way.”
‘Everybody is grieving. That’s why.’ Widow embraces beauty of strangers who supported her during funeral procession
“I’ll be honest, I had to sit back and ask myself why. Why would all these people come out to stand in the hot sun and hold signs and cry for a man that they never had dinner with, never had a beer with, never even had a conversation with. Why would they do that?”
‘Dear darling fiancé, that’s all I want. Recognition.’ After woman’s post calls out her fiancé, he replies in best possible way
“Seeing the hundreds of women flock to your side giving several ‘AMEN’S’ reiterates just how important this is to you.”
‘He said if I wanted, we could get married that night.’ Woman battling Lupus gets engagement and wedding on same night
“The second I realized we could be married then, all of the shakiness and shock went away.”
