“I decided to clean out her bedroom. It was a virtual cesspool. As I was clearing away the reminders of her unwell state, I found her suicide note.”
‘He told me he didn’t feel attached to our baby, and he didn’t love me anymore. I secretly hoped I would die in childbirth. My life as I knew it, was completely dismantled.’
‘I was standing in line. An older gentleman said, ‘Why are you wearing that rainbow shirt? Are you some sort of fa***t?’
“This man then goes on to mumble homophobic slurs to me, the whole time I’m waiting in line. I ignore him, pay for my food, and start to walk away. I then notice his card gets declined.”
‘When I wiped, I felt something coming out. My world came crashing down. I got a sick feeling in my stomach – I knew what was about to happen.’
“I laid on that cold bed, put my feet in the stirrups and prayed. After moments that felt like forever, my doctor looked up at me. ‘You’re having twins!’ We were in shock. But seconds later, our doctor had a weird look on her face. She said, ‘Wait! I think I see triplets!’”
‘Turns out, some people HATE a man in a dress.’
“My husband makes a hideous woman. My kids thought it was hilarious that daddy had boobies and a big wig. It didn’t take long before I realized my husband dressed-up as the bearded lady was not as charming to others as I thought it was. I was shocked.”
‘I want you to know about the intrusive, vivid nightmares I have about my child being laughed at. Ridiculed. Assaulted. Murdered.’
“I want you to know about the nights I lay awake, helpless and shaking. I want to tell my story of our family, who fiercely love someone being attacked and can do very little about it.”
‘It was so simple for me to accidentally get pregnant with my twins. Why couldn’t I do this for my wife?! I felt as if I was failing her. Something I never wanted to do.’
“This was something we both wanted SO badly, yet everything was going horribly wrong. This wasn’t full of whispers and giggles and kisses like we had thought. This was full of frustration, anger, and disappointment.”
‘The restaurant was 20 yards away from the starting line of a gay pride event. It was the annual ‘Drag Race,’ which you can tell by the picture, was not exactly a NASCAR event.’
“No less than 6 families ushered their children back to their cars and found somewhere else to eat their dinner. I know those folks.”
They said, ‘Anna is pregnant.’ Then they said, ‘So is Renee.’ Partners due simultaneously after infertility struggle
“She reminded us how amazing it was that we were ovulating at the same time, and that we both had eggs mature enough for treatment.”
‘I’ve never been with anyone with this lifestyle nor have I have been with a girl, but now that I’ve gotten to know him, I don’t want it any other way. He is the love of my life.’
“I didn’t think someone like her would be willing to love someone like me. But I was wrong.”
‘My child is transgender. But she is not the one who changed – I am.’
“Matthew became Madison only months before she started kindergarten. I am still grieving my son. Matty always wanted things that were pink and sparkled. He loved his cousin’s headbands and dress up clothes.”
