The best decision I ever made was giving up my daughter.

We fell in love, got married and got pregnant, a tale all old as human history. We were together 4 blissful years before we had her. And we were so happy when she was born.

It faded, fast. The next years of her life were miserable. This child hated everything and I missed my husband and myself. My beautiful husband turned into a sad robotic creature.

When she was 6, I tried to kill myself for the second time. My husband saved my life, and our daughter went to her grandparents for a long weekend (happened on a Thursday night).

We spent the weekend together. We mostly cried, slept and made love. We realized how miserable we had been for the last 6 years, and we realized we had to give her up. Or neither of the 3 of us would ever be happy.

We started the process of putting her up for adoption. And my husband got a vasectomy.

My husband and I got our lives and love back. It was the best decision we ever made. We’ve been together for almost 25 years and getting ready to renew our vows this summer.