When the Unimaginable Happens and You Come to the End of Yourself

Finally, after five tumultuous years, it felt like we were standing on level ground.

My husband and I had already faced more challenges than we could’ve imagined. We suffered the loss of twin girls when I was five months pregnant – a complete shock and an utterly devastating loss.

A year after that loss, we had our beautiful healthy firstborn, Farrell. Pregnant with my second, one month before her birth, my tween stepdaughter moved in basically overnight. I adore my stepdaughter. At 32, however, I was ill prepared to raise a tween right in the middle of raising babies.

We were bursting at the seams and sold our house, moving from the city to the suburbs to raise our growing family. My husband had also just taken a new job.

When it came to top stressors in life, we checked a lot of boxes.

After living in our new home just about a year, our lives had settled down. Though we had suffered a lot of heartbreak, we truly came from the depths of despair strengthened.

Things were so good, we decided to go on a romantic weekend getaway to the beach…

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