“I know without a doubt my baby brother Mark put us together to save my life.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Right away I knew something was wrong. When the officer told us that he’s so sorry, but Mark died in a car accident, I completely lost it.’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘If you ask my boy, he’d tell you, he has two dads and two moms. All 4 of us kept Jaden’s needs before our own. A loving, crazy, enormous, blended family.’
“Kristen was young. So young, I had my reservations. I learned very fast that just because another woman was parenting my child, didn’t mean she was taking my place.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I was having a hard time finding the words – probably because I haven’t had any sleep – to express to my husband why I’m not in the best of moods in the morning.’
“So, I sat down with my coffee and drew him this visual.”
By LJ Herman -
‘I had everything: 2 healthy boys, a brand new baby girl, a husband, a room full of baby gifts. I was unbelievably grateful. I was unbelievably satisfied. But I wasn’t happy.’
“’Maybe this is just what it’s like to have three kids,’ I thought. I cried alone. I pushed my friends away. I couldn’t connect with my kids.”
By LJ Herman -
‘We’d finally decided to tie the knot. One year and 6 days later, he was dead. There were no warning signs, just a phone call telling me my husband – who I’d spoken to only hours ago – had died.’
“There was no accident, no cancer diagnosis, nothing amiss beyond what the doctors said was the flu.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I remember our first marital therapy session vividly. I sat separated from Ryan and the tension between us felt so strong. We were two hurting people only hurting each other.’
“I had so much I wanted to say to Ryan, many things that I had said to him before, but saying them in front of someone felt like they would be heard. But that day my heart ultimately exploded, literally, in the form of tears and anger.”
By LJ Herman -
‘When your photographer don’t PLAY! She wasn’t missing THAT shot.’ Photographer pushes stepmom out of the way for interrupting the perfect first kiss photo
“She kept apologizing to me thinking I was going to be upset about all of this.”
By LJ Herman -
‘I’m upstairs doing my hair and he comes to the bottom of the stairs and says, ‘BABE! Someone is at the door for you!’
“Of course I roll my eyes because I inconveniently had to pause curling my hair… and then I came down to this.”
By LJ Herman -
‘When your wife think she’s slick!’ Wife requests $1,000 dollars for ‘wife services,’ but husband’s hilarious reply is perfect
“We regret to inform you that your request for payment has been rejected.”
By LJ Herman -
‘My husband passed away from a sudden heart attack at 32. I felt like my world was crashing in. Although I had two beautiful babies, I thought multiple times about suicide.’
“My best friend had enough of my sorrow and stole my phone to add me to Tinder. I absolutely HATED the idea. There was no way I would let a man near myself or my children.”
By Eliza Murphy -
