Thank you so much for your time and efforts creating a valuable resource for women in love with an incarcerated person. I have been with my love for going on five years, he was indicted in October 2009 and we will be sentenced in seven days. Your site has helped me in knowing what I am feeling is normal and possible to overcome. I would love someday to join you in your efforts to let word of the situation be known here in Michigan. I get so many negative vibes from people once they know my situation yet I do not care and will continue to ride with mines to the fullest. Hopefully he will be moved soon after sentencing so that we can have a contact visit, until then and in the future I will continue to look to your page for simple reminders and advice knowing that I can conquer the situation. Thank You for all you do!!!

A few months ago my marraige was on the path to being one of thr 80%. With prayer and support, my husband and I are turning things around. For another 6 years however, I will carry the stigma of being a Prisoners Wife. For another 6 years and possibly beyond that, people will questions the decisions I have made. I cant begin to express how this website/forum will help me get through these upcoming years and will make me a stronger mother, friend, and wife.

Thank You.
JuDonne Hemingway
Chicago Il

Just found this site, on the off chance there wud b a site of some use 2 me. This is exactly wot i wo lookin for, i feel alone an hate goin to bed in our empty bed. No one understands how i feel they tell me to get over him an move on. Glad t no im not alone in how i feel, thanks folks x

I have to say that their are no words to explain how happy i am to know there are really people who understand how i feel. Me and my man get judge so much by other people. People Judge him because he is in prison and people judge me because i choose to stand beside him. Every time i read what you ladies have to say on here or even when i watch PrIson Wives.... I cry because i feel your pain, your lonelieness and your desperation to hold your man.... I also feel that happieness you get when you get a letter or a phone call or you get to go see your man that one day a week or what ever it may!! Its soo nice to know im not alone in this and there are people who feel how i feel and hurt how i hurt and smile for the same reasons i smile. Thank you everybody for the support and the stories they help me get through this ruff time in my life. I am here with a open mind and i will listin.... im always looking for new friends to talk to and share conversation with. Feel free to email me anytime!!

Reesy,
As always I say you are the greatest! You always manage to find a way to say what everyone else is thinking (or not) in an eloquent way. Keep pushing forward and great things will continue to come your way. Thank you for all that you do and all that you are.

Amazing... so glad you are doing this... you have come full circle and made a transformation... William must be proud!! Hope you are both well... xoxo

All I can say is that I am soooo proud of you! You present us well! I have 90 days of the actual incarceration left. But I am not going anywhere lady, because then there is the post incarceartion. Keep doing what you do!

I am very happy to find this site. I also joined the facebook group. I can't post on there , because it shows up on my homepage and I don't want my family to see what I am saying, they don't understand. They just keep telling me how I need to leave. Anyway, I think it is great that you started this group. We appreciate it very much.

thank you. I don't feel so very alone now.

thank you. I don't feel so very alone now.

Your article, "Divided Highway" in the PA Prison Society's newsletter Graterfriends said it all.
You put words to the feelings I have and those I see on the faces of the other women in the visiting room. There is a pain there that only someone in the same situation can understand.
It is validating to know that there are other folks who do understand. It lessens the lonliness, and strengthens the resolve to not only continue but intensify our efforts to show our men the powerful love we have for them.
Thank you,

Kim

First, let me say that words cannot express how very proud I am of you. This is all amazing! I've seen you be knocked down countless times. Bruised. Battered. A shell of a person. Even when those who loved you did nothing to help you, you picked yourself back up and decided to do things your way. Your strength through all of this will be the foundation that so many others will use to make it through. I am so proud to call you my sister!

I am so proud of you! You are an amazing person with so much to share. You have turned your situation into a way to touch others in a profound way. You find a way to see the positive instead of having a doom and gloom attitude. This is much needed in this world and you are the perfect person to spread this message. I deeply hope that all that are in this same situation will reach out to you and your group. I find so much value in all that you share. Don't ever give up!
Much Love!

I must say when you meet greatness you feel like a little child again, looking up with stars in your eyes and a big candy smile. You are so inspiring for me, not to me, but for me. There are no words to describe what we go through on a day to day, but to have that motivation and drive keeps us bonded in a way that is like sisters. It is a life style, a choice and soon a reward to know that you are bringing the good out of a situation that for years has been darken. There are so many of us that just need a friend or informer to help guide us through it and times we put ourselves last in the trials of helping others and you loose yourself. There is support for the inmates what about the ones behind them that support those, we put on our happy face and sing a beautiful song but when we go home to our empty beds we cry ourselves to sleep. I'm sooo glad you do what you do for the reasons you do it and the plants you have grown are all started from a seed an idea and you have taken care of every detail and have given them your all. Thank you Reesy for being you.

Wow, you are doing amazing things! I love the website. You are an inspiration. I hope that God continues to bless you as you move forward on your new journey! Take care and God Bless.

Hi Reesy,
I really hope and pray that this works out for you.I waited for my husband about 24 years. he got out , got married to someone else and doesn't see his grown kids. I got a milliion letters of love while he was in there. Even quit my job and moved to one of the prision. I traveled all over every other summer and supported him all the way. Good luck and stay blessed. Everybody's story is different.

Hi Reesy and other guests. Just wanted to share that the end of this month will signify the 4th anniversary of my husband coming home from 25 years in New York State prisons. It has been a roller coaster ride and even HE admits it (for the first 2 years, he thought things were fine and I was the one with adjustment problems!!)--but now it seems like a kiddie coaster rather than the monster up-down-sdeways-corkscrew-round and round, up sidedown-nightmare ride it sometimes seemed like. I think I can start to relax now!!