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What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is from an anonymous reader. We're normal. No, really. We hold respectable steady jobs; he's in the tech industry and I work with children. We have friends and pets and go to Trader Joe's . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Heather Blaire. What I want you to know is that you never get over losing a child. The pain never goes away. And you are never the same person again.I lost my sweet, funny, one . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by  Amy Edwards and Jaime Stephens. When your child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, you are instantly bombarded with a whole new vocabulary: insulin, ketones, test strips, logs, . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Rose.There are days (a lot of them), when I desperately want to start a family. When I daydream about having a baby, a toddler, a child or teen; about the books I would read with them, the songs I’d sing . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Kayme Pumphrey. I lost my husband of 12 years 15 days before I turned 30. On Father’s Day, one day after our oldest’s fifth birthday, we entered the hospital; seven days later, the virus that attacked . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here.  Today’s post is by Huma T. Yasin Matthew lives in a small town in Mississippi. About eight months ago, the manufacturing plant that supported eighty percent of the town’s jobs shut down. Matt and the rest of his friends . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Aracely Worley. I suffer from anxiety and panic disorder and I want you to know it really sucks. It’s a daily battle to try to keep it together. I want you to know that I’ve tried it . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by  an anonymous reader. I am a happily married mother of three small children under age five. My husband and I both agreed we didn't want to have any more children after our third was born. Our . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is written by an anonymous reader. Having a mental illness is a lot like having a physical illness. One of the main differences to me is, since you can't see the injury, you might think that it is easier to . . .