My husband helped me on and off the toilet when I was recovering from having our son.
At one point I
was able to go on my own but couldn’t quite make it back to bed, so he lifted me off the toilet.
When he tucked me in he told me I make adult diapers look beautiful… it meant more to me than any other time he’d said it.
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