Me and my husband met back in college, dated for 2 years, I got pregnant, 5 months pregnant he proposed, once baby girl was 2yr old we got married and she was the flower girl, we got a house, had three more kids. My husband has never been a heavy drinker but he drinks occasionally but never around children let alone our children.

My daughter was at an after school program for middle schoolers and my husband had to go to work. So he said he’ll pick her up, drop her off, and head to work. I had just had a baby so I couldn’t do it. My husband left a literal hour before her pickup time but he said he wanted to be there early, so I let it go.

Around 5pm, they’re not here…her program ended at 4:30 and they’re 10 minutes away and in my brain “traffic” but around 5:10 I called my husband and he didn’t answer so I called my daughter and she said he still hasn’t picked up yet. I kept calling him (6 times to be exact) until my phone turned off, it wasn’t dead or anything it just cut out.

I try reaching them on my computer and iPad, nothing so I called the police thinking something bad happened to my husband and/or my daughter.

Next thing I know, police showed up at my door, told me what happened, and my life literally shattered into pieces. My husband was drunk when he picked my daughter up and went in the wrong lane, skipped multiple red lights, and a truck crashed into them. Truck driver, my husband, my daughter, and a couple died.

Today is the day it happened 4 years ago, my stepdad and mom has been public and said to me that I’m doing too much by being mad at my husband, I just can’t get over it and it’s just my heart that hurts so bad. He got drunk and then he took multiple people’s lives including his own and our baby. Our younger two kids don’t even remember their dad or their big sister. I don’t think I’m wrong but my sister said that I am overreacting as he died as well, not just my daughter.