"TheBaron2112" (TheBaron2112)
05/08/2015 at 16:45 • Filed to: None
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"TheBaron2112" (TheBaron2112)
05/08/2015 at 16:45 • Filed to: None | 0
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I read a post on Jezebel about shitty moms that drive their kids away. It got to me. Then I wrote a book.
I don’t know what kind of responses I’m gonna get there, but I figured I’d get some diametrically opposite opinions here.
I’m not sure I even need responses to this. Just... it’s where my head is going into Mothers Day weekend...
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LongbowMkII
> TheBaron2112
05/08/2015 at 17:41 |
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I’ve never been exactly close to my mother either. She was away on business a lot growing up and what time she was home was usually spent drinking (functional alcoholic). She’s not exactly the most maternal figure anyways. I figured out as a young teen that there were phases to her personality. And as an adult the relationship was/is emotionally distant. There have been moments of wanting to cut her off entirely (specifically after a horrible drunken phone call), but was untenable since my dad had cancer and he was obviously being effected by it, I sucked it up and made nice. Strangely, after his passing things have gotten much better. I’m attributing it to the stress relief of seeing her spouse finally being beyond all that and my own understanding of her early life which was slightly illuminated by him telling my wife vaguely about my mother’s childhood. As you can guess, open communication was never a strong tenet of my family haha. It’s a strange thing being the child of an alcoholic, you never quite know what you’ll get. Things are going well now, but it only takes one bad night to fuck it back up. Always wondering.
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TheBaron2112
> LongbowMkII
05/08/2015 at 18:11 |
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Mine is like... she tries really hard I guess. She did all the right mom things. I was the first child. I got all the love I guess. Maybe I’m weird and that pushed me away.