Worst emotional pain you have ever felt?

[Anonymous]

Wife dying

[Anonymous]

Worst in my adult life was when my husband went to rehab. He was an anesthesiologist, so he worked irregular hours anyway, and he got his drugs at work. I was blindsided when I found out that he was using, but the worst days were those first days he was gone. Our kids were really little (1, 3, and 4.5), and I had no idea what I was going to do.

But even that doesn’t compare to the mean girl stuff in high school. I don’t even think I went through anything abnormal. Girls are just SO mean at that age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blindsided by an affair 20 years into marriage right after my beloved dad died.

Are you still together?

[Anonymous]

When I found out a dear friend and mentor had committed suicide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my baby was taken nto the NICU without anyone explaining to me what was going on.

Nothing ended up being wrong. She had one high temperature reading.

I'd rather go through another c section again then to feel that NICU pain again.

Similar here. Sorry, PP. It's honestly horrifying how women are treated around birth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tie between finding out my brother died and the first time my child tried to kill himself. Probably the latter because it has been such a long road and with unbelievably painful periods. but my brothers death really hit hard.

OMG. I am so sorry. How old was he, and what happened.

[Anonymous]

Finding out my DH has been cheating on me for 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Finding out my DH has been cheating on me for 5 years.

Are you still together?

[Anonymous]

A tie between (1) when my parents cut me off in college because they found out my boyfriend was another race and (2) the man I really really loved chose to date another woman after he introduced me to his parents because he said he could not marry me for one reason (I was not his ethnic background although we were the same religion). He could not stay away from me while dating her and that was painful. He turned me into the other woman. I eventually ended it (not him). He married her.

These two events were even harder than hearing my ex husband saying he married me because I was "good on paper."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When husband in a very long drawn out way, told me he didn’t want me going to his company’s holiday party. He said that it’s a burden to have me there when he supposed to be bonding with colleagues.

that’s it? are you normally that sensitive? is something else going on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also blindsided by an affair. Currently living it; spouse is leaving/divorcing for AP. Young children involved. It is absolute hell on earth.

PP - I know how it feels and I was in that place 4 years ago. Hang in there as it will get better and maybe you’ll be glad it happened. Not the pain you’re experiencing now of course but the outcome.

[Anonymous]

My husband killed himself with me in the house. He had locked the bathroom door but I knew as soon as I heard the gunshot. I told myself I still had to open it just in case. It was either when I opened the door or when I was telling the 911 dispatcher that I didn’t know what to do.

[Anonymous]

When my Mom died swiftly from cancer. I was bereft and went to urgent care months later feeling unable to breathe. I could but the grief threw me ashore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband killed himself with me in the house. He had locked the bathroom door but I knew as soon as I heard the gunshot. I told myself I still had to open it just in case. It was either when I opened the door or when I was telling the 911 dispatcher that I didn’t know what to do.

I am so very sorry.

[Anonymous]

My children going thru depression