Paws In Our Hearts
You are not alone here.
There's no right way to do this, and no length it's supposed to be. Write what you can.
Most people who come here are looking for someone who has felt what they are feeling. They arrive at two in the morning, days or months after, and they read until they find a person who describes it the way it actually is.
Your story becomes that for somebody. Not because it is well written, and not because you have found any answers, but because you were honest about a thing most people go quiet about. Nothing here scrolls away. What you write stays where someone can find it.
And there is the other part, the part that is only for you. Putting them into words is one of the few things that makes the missing feel like it is going somewhere.
You don't have to start at the beginning, and you don't have to tell the whole thing. Pick whichever of these you can answer, and write only that. Two sentences is a story.
Two of the most recent, so you can see the range. Some are long. Some are a paragraph.
When Jackie came into my life in 2018, I never imagined how deeply she would become a part of it. At first, she was simply a new companion—four paws, a wagging tail, and a…
A member of our community lost her best friend of almost twenty years on May 6th. She gave us her blessing to share his story, in her own words, as a memorial to him.…
Sharing their story is free, and you can do it under your own name or anonymously.
You just need an account first. That way you can finish it later if you need to stop, come back and change it, or ask us to take it down whenever you want.