Sh!t my husband says

BootsOrHearts

This was a regular fav on the Oct board, usually pretty funny but today it was really sweet and made me teary-eyed.

We both agreed that this loss has brought us closer together and taught us how to depend on one another and get through a crisis together. We've learned a lot that will help us when we finally get our take-home baby. So today he said that what helped him when he was sad, was to think that maybe Harrison was given a choice and chose to leave early so that he could give us this gift of being closer as a couple. 

I love that man.  

tuscanbride2007

What a great thing to say. You have a great husband to lean on during these times!

FirstTimer02

Wow!!  I'm sure Harrison is proud of you.

We talk about all the things our little guy is teaching us... like how as a parent you always want to do everything you can to protect your kiddo.  However you just plain don't have 100% control over what happens to them.  Also, kids are who they are.  There is so much parents to do take care of them and teach them, but they still have their own abilities, missions, constraints, desires, choices, experiences that are out of their parents' hands.  I think even if you outlive your child there are ways you will "lose" them, as they grow up, change, and make their own decisions.  I feel like this little guy is putting us through a major bootcamp on that front, a new perspective that we will always take with us.

jbranden12

That is really sweet. I'm glad you can find support in each other. I think for us, we don't know whose choice it was for her to leave us, or if it was a choice at all. But we do know that she would not have wanted to see her family fall apart. So we have made the choice to actively work to make sure that does not happen.

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