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Mom Criticizes Daughter-in-Law for Not Cleaning the House. Her Husband’s Response Is Everything.

"I didn't really know how to respond to my mother, so I floundered. I never really know what to say in moments like this."

“The Pain, Unlike My Baby Girl, Would Live on Forever”: Mom Shares Raw, Heartbreaking Stillbirth Story

“As I stood over her and spent those last few minutes with her, blood was cascading down my legs and onto the floor. I didn't care - my womb was crying. Everything about me was crying. Watching them wheel her away broke me. My life ended then and there."

“I Wonder if That’s Him. It Was Surreal”: Man Spots Boy He Rescued from Fire 13 Years Later

“I hadn't seen him in nearly 13 years, he was 4 years old then, but everything seemed to fit… I slowly walked over to him, and his family. I slowly approached him, and when he looked at me... I shattered the ice."

My Husband Was Having an Affair—Her Husband Found Them at Walgreens and Shot Him. But My Story Didn’t Break Me.

Courtesy of Ashlee Birk Boyson

The garage door slammed and the baby started to scream. I hung up the phone. For hours I bounced that little baby. The screams were full of the same fear that I held in my heart. Something was wrong. I promised Tytus over and over that everything was going to be ok. I picked up my phone many times to call my mom, or a friend, but I wouldn’t let myself dial. I couldn’t stand to have another person tell me that everything was ok—or worse, have someone remind me that I was going crazy.

The hours go slow when you are holding a baby who can’t be calmed, but this night they were even harder. Around 10, he really started to panic. His screams were piercing and there was nothing I could do to get him to calm down. I could feel it too. I dialed Emmett’s number a few times in a row. No answer. I text him and asked if he was ok. Nothing. Silence. The loudest silence I had ever felt.

Around midnight the baby finally calmed down and I laid him in his bed. The feeling of isolation and being alone really set in as I sat in a silent house full of sleeping babies. For a moment I thought about going to look for him, but that would mean leaving my kids. There was no way I was going to do that. So I just sat in the silence begging—still—for one answer.

The next thing I knew I was awakened by a pounding on my front door. The walk to the entryway felt like it was in slow motion—every thought in my head telling me that this could be my answer. It is a police man and Emmett got in a wreck in his fancy new truck… and he will be in a hospital bed and he will need us. Everything will be ok. They will take you to him and you guys will have the moment you have been longing for all day.

Mom Criticizes Daughter-in-Law for Not Cleaning the House. Her Husband’s Response Is Everything.

"I didn't really know how to respond to my mother, so I floundered. I never really know what to say in moments like this."

“The Pain, Unlike My Baby Girl, Would Live on Forever”: Mom Shares Raw, Heartbreaking Stillbirth Story

“As I stood over her and spent those last few minutes with her, blood was cascading down my legs and onto the floor. I didn't care - my womb was crying. Everything about me was crying. Watching them wheel her away broke me. My life ended then and there."

“I Wonder if That’s Him. It Was Surreal”: Man Spots Boy He Rescued from Fire 13 Years Later

“I hadn't seen him in nearly 13 years, he was 4 years old then, but everything seemed to fit… I slowly walked over to him, and his family. I slowly approached him, and when he looked at me... I shattered the ice."