I was and am born deaf. I was the last baby of 5 girls - 4 of them can hear. I have been teased at. I was the "outsider" of my own deaf school. I was verbally abused and pychically abused. I almost killed myself at age of 10. I had major depression thoughout my teen years. I had stepfather who I feel was completely stranger who living with us because he does not interact with any of us. My mother married another man and he now acts like my father - I was 18 years old when they met. At age of 18, I plan to kill myself but my husband came to my life. Today, we have 3 children but one of them passed away in March, 2009. Last week, we had to give my son a operation for his hydronephrosis. With so much awful events in my life, I'm only 25 years old.
LeAnn, your song couldn't come a better time. I am much calmer and at peace. I finally found myself. I want to say thank you because your song made me stronger and pull though for my son's operation. I accepted the fact this is how my life would be. Thank you.

My brother is a heroin addict and has been for 3-4 years. It is tearing my family apart, he has lived on the streets (by choice), he has stole from my parents, lied to everyone, pawned our belongings to continue his "life-style". He has been telling us he is clean now after 4 times of trying to go to a methadone clinic and kick his habit and he just confessed to my mom that he is still using and it breaks my moms heart to see her son slowly dying. he tries to get physical with my father, who is cronically ill, he calls him a parasite, because my dad can;t work due to his illness which is still going un-dyignosed. He make my father feel like a failure and it kills me inside. He is my only brother, not to mention my only sibling. We fight non-stop and i have said awful, awful things to him and i know i can't take them back. His addiction has gotten me to the point that when i have children i'm not sure if i want them to know about my brother at all. I pray all the time for him and i just hope that one day i can look into his eyes and see my big brother once again, not this person he is now. your song reminds me that It's hard to love him, but i have to love what i cannot change.

I dont know where to begin. I have had a lot to go through in my life and I just didn't want to deal with it.
I remember when my brother passed away, he was only 26 and sadly died on his way to hospital, he was living in the Philippines with my three sisters. Getting the call that he had gone was just....I cant find the words. Having to break the news to mum was...heartbreaking. No parent should have to hear that their child is gone. And sadly we didn't even have the money to travel to his funeral. And then a year later the same thing happened but with my auntie and not being able to say our goodbyes. We will never forget them and I talk with mum about the good things, she is a grandmother to 7 girls and 2 boys and we talk to them as much as possible through webcam. Mum and me haven't been back to the Philippines in over 10 years but we are hoping, no we are going to change that and go back as soon as possible.

I cannot change that I have adult ADD and that MOST of the time I walk around feeling lost and unworthy of accomplishment.
My identical twin sister is addicted to drugs and alcohol and our WHOLE family has tried to help her. She is overweight but can't seem to get her life together no matter how many GOOD chances she gets.
I can't change that my dad never calls just to say HI !
I can't change that I was molested at a young age.
I can't change that I made mistakes because of that.
I can't change that my parents weren't very good parents.
I CAN ONLY CHANGE ME!

I'm 32 years old, I have cheated on my husband. The first time I did it was almost 6 years ago with a good friend. At the time this person was making me feel good. We would talk all the time about everything, my husband never seemed to notice, or care. Which is a lot of the reason why I chose to sleep with this man. He was making me feel great, said things my husband never bothered with. My husband knows about that affair, he found out about 2 years ago. The second time was only a few months ago, this time with a co-worker. I slept with him mostly because I was attracted to him and because I was still angry with my husband for things he had done to me. I felt like why not, I should do what I want, since he does. My husband has spent the entire 10 years of our marriage having outside relationships with women. He called them friends, I know they were more, although he has never admitted to this. Does this excuse what I've done, no, I know that, but I still did it, and would probably do it again.