
To all the college "First-timers"
To all the first- time parents sending their babies off to college. I say “babies” because lets be real, they will forever be our babies. My first baby just graduated college, so four years ago I drove her four and a half hours away from our home. Not knowing what was going to hit me. The emotions that would come getting her ready, the heartache as I drove home, the worry when I did not hear from her or the emptiness in our house with just one gone.
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What I wasn't told about losing your spouse.
What I wasn't told about losing your spouse. I have slowly learned.
That this is the worst pain you could ever feel. That although you walk through the day with a smile on your face, majority of the nights are filled with sadness. They forget to tell you, no one will truly help you! You get to walk trying to figure out how to do things with just half of you, see half of you died the day your spouse died. I wasn't told you would live in doubt, not sure you were living and g