For seven years, I mourned children I believed I would never have. I told myself I had made peace with it. I learned how to smile through baby showers, how to send gifts and step outside before the tears came, how to say, “It just wasn’t in the cards for us,” like it didn’t scrape something raw inside me every time. Mark always knew exactly what to say. “We’re enough,” he’d whisper, holding my hand like we were standing on the same side of something painful. And I believed him. I built my life around that belief. Until yesterday, when... Continues…





