“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 -
‘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.’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘For one brief moment, all was as it should be. Suddenly, without any warning, the path crumbled beneath our feet. I was severely hemorrhaging. I was bleeding out.’
“I couldn’t bring myself to open my eyes. I knew I was in trouble. I asked for my husband and heard his voice weakly manage to say, ‘I love you.’ He knew I was in trouble, too.”
By LJ Herman -
‘She took her last breath. I felt her soul leave her body. She made me promise I would be OK. Armed with a map and her ashes, I set off on a journey of a lifetime.’
“She stared off into the distance, and then turned back to me and smiled. She told me, ‘I want you to go. You need to go. You need to be out there… Nature is your cathedral.’ I will never forget those words.”
By Eliza Murphy -
I’ve birthed an entire baby in the time it takes my husband to poop.
“I’ve actually done it faster! On two separate occasions, and one of those births was a set of twins. Twins!”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘You don’t just marry your spouse. There is always room for conflict when it comes to IN-LAWS.’
“My husband’s mother has left some pretty painful wounds on his heart. But now, her actions don’t just hurt him, they hurt me too.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘SEX after kids. I can count on 2 hands the number of times we had sex the first year after the triplets were born. Okay, probably just 1 hand.’
“And then there was the first time we had sex since my delivery. O M G.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I was married to a drug addict, then I married a man who happened to be a recovering addict. I wouldn’t change a thing.’
“My children’s father was set on a path that would lead him to a heroin addiction. The young man I had married, the one that had loved his babies and was so excited to be a dad, was gone.”
By Eliza Murphy -
4th of July is for Lovers: Single mom hits ‘JACKPOT’ after falling ‘hard’ for her hilarious patriotic model
“I remember my daughter saying, ‘Why don’t you date him Mom? I think he like likes you.’ We are now engaged to be married!”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘If you’re having trouble losing weight, CHECK YOUR THYROID. Before I was medicated, I was sick, sad and dying.’
“My highest weight, at 4’11”, was 230 pounds. Yeah, that’s what you call a dangerous BMI. I was terrified, afraid I’d die in my sleep. My boyfriend rushed me to the hospital after finding me barely conscious in my car in a Walmart parking lot at 2 a.m.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘The day is here! It’s wedding day mommy!’ Teenage parents reunite to finally marry after 10 years, their 6-year-old daughter loses it
“I’m finally at peace. For the first time in 10 years, everyone in my house has the same last name.”
By Eliza Murphy -
