Mother's day

[kittymonkey]

Mother's day is always uncomfortable for me. I was an unwilling stepmother to a feral little boy who's mother was too busy getting wasted and having orgies to really help her son grow up, or send him to school, or show up on time for anything. He is now an anxious young man who is bitter at the world. I don't really expect him to call me up and

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[bingsy]

No one's perfect. That's the evidence that you really were a mother to him - the fact that you made mistakes and second guess. If it makes you feel better, my sister Mariea had her babies starting at 17 years old, 4 of them total, all boys, and I think a couple of them regularly forget her on Mother's Day. One is a lot like P, and she knows not to put too much stock in his actions or lack there of. It's hard to even get him to take a phone call. Mother's Day is important, but it's not the measure of your worth in his life. And I think how it helped Justin trumps everything anyways.

I got wished Happy Mother's Day 3 times Mother's Day weekend. I shook it off because that is the emotionally and socially easy thing to do for me. I didn't have anything extra to get mad at the fact that what is really happening there is that it is socially expected that someone as old as me should have kids. It also helped that I really do like two of the people that wished me Happy Mother's Day are people that I like.

I didn't do any Mother's Day assignments, though I had earlier planned some, because I couldn't figure out a way to do it without hurting the kid or kids whose mothers have died. I know it's a cop out and that maybe it would have brought them healing, but I thought they might like a break from having to deal with it.

PS I would have killed to have had you as a mother or stepmother growing up.