"It's a simple one that changed my life forever, unfortunately. I picked up a shift at work late one night and left my kids with my Ma. It was usually Papa who watched my twins, but he was sick, so I asked Ma. I mean, that's fine and shouldn't be a big deal, right? I left, and all was good; I worked several hours, with a few check-ins and no problems. I get home early the next morning to find Ma passed out drunk on our couch with my son Patrick in the tub. He had drowned while Ma got drunk, and I'll never understand why she couldn't have waited a few minutes to start/keep drinking. I knew she was an alcoholic, but she'd gone from binging every day to just on her day off over the last several months and was doing really well with not needing alcohol to function."
"I regret losing my virginity to the wrong guy. I was in a girl's school with a strict family at home, so online platforms were the only way I could meet people, especially of the opposite gender. I was just 16 when this guy pinged me on Facebook, and we started talking. After a month, I met him and fell into that trap. I thought all the lovey-dovey things he did meant that he really loved me. I had literally no idea what actual love felt like at that time. I was just a dumb asshole with an immature and innocent heart. Anyway, I was too stupid to notice that this guy only texted me at night and only called me to talk dirty. I had all the red flags in front of me, but I was too naive to see them."
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