Tag: bad mother
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Messy thoughts
Author’s Note:This piece isn’t polished. It’s how my thoughts ran at the time. I’m sharing it as it came, because that’s part of the story too. If it feels messy, that’s because it was. When the world you know turns against you—when the people you love become enemies, when you’re betrayed again and again—it’s easy…
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Mad Axe Mother
🪓 My mother told me more than once that she felt me jump in her stomach when my father was aggressive. She said he was violent before, during, and after her pregnancy with me. I can’t say if this is true, and I mentally apologise as I write this—because he died in 2019 and can’t…
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No one’s their own worst enemy
I don’t believe anyone has the authority to call you your own worst enemy — and you should not do it either. Here’s why. “Her own worst enemy” can sound concerned. It can even sound wise. But when it comes from someone close, someone who “knows it all” — a parent, a partner, the very…