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Kathy Kelly's avatar

As someone with a complicated relationship with my mother and father I love these words from Glennon. So much of the foundation of who you are shakes when you lose a parent, even a bad parent, it takes time to reset the structure.

This ties into your writing about when your kids leave too, in that, I worked so hard to create a family with love, without the abuse and neglect, teaching them to be who they are, it was very hard not to feel the pain of letting them go. While waiting them to grow and start their own lives, it’s been sad to let go of this beautiful family I created. It’s evolved and is still beautiful but now it comes differently.

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Allison Polidor's avatar

The book Mother Hunger helped me so much. Just being able to name it is powerful.

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