Kylie Lowe
Stories (3/0)
SECOND BEST LIFE
SECOND BEST LIFE I grew up poor; I’m not ashamed of that, however it is only with the wisdom of age that I can now see how diligently I was hardwired to expect second best in life. The two phrases “It’s good enough” and “It’s just as good as the real thing” permeated just about every aspect of my life, from where I shopped for clothes, what brands of food I bought, even to my first husband. “It’s just as good.” Story of my life.
By Kylie Lowe3 years ago in Humans
Every Second Sunday
Every Second Sunday – Her Story Sometimes I wish I never had her... then I wouldn't have to deal with her father. Every second Sunday is the worst; I have to smile pleasantly while he drops our 5 year old home, both of them happy and exhausted from another fun weekend together! They say that the best form of revenge is success, so I’m a successful single mother, a career woman who owns a lovely home and a late model car, yet all that still doesn’t erase the devastation and humiliation I felt when the love of my life heard our baby’s heart beat for the first time then turned around and walked out of my life for the next two and a half years.
By Kylie Lowe3 years ago in Humans
YOU CALL THAT LUCKY?
Miscarriage. What an all-encompassing shitty word that is. A mis-carriage of what, justice? A miscarriage of justice all right, why did my baby have to die rather than some woman’s who didn’t even want her child? I used to do that a lot; walking down the street I would watch women pushing babies in prams and pick out the ones that I thought deserved their child a lot less than I deserved mine. And who in their right minds ever strung those innocent words together to create that disgusting phrase: “You’re lucky it happened now and not later on.” There is no luck in losing a child, whether it’s 2 days or 9 months gestation, it is a part of you and when that baby is gone, it’s like a part of you dies too. All up I lost 7 babies, so with 7 bits of me gone, I felt like a puzzle with most of the pieces missing and the rest jumbled into a mess.
By Kylie Lowe4 years ago in Humans