Parental Relationships!
This is why I'm the kind of mother I am today! ♥ I am the mother I always needed and I am the kind of parent I wish I had. My grandmother took excellent care of me from infancy but she always had to take care of everyone else too...still does...so her attention was forever divided. I thank God every day for women like my Aunt Tari and DiDi, without them helping my grandmother I'd have really been forgotten. Plenty of mother figures have come and gone in my life, but the problem there is they tell you your like a daughter to them but end of the day your reminded that your not their daughter. I clung to anyone who showed me love and it hurt 10x over when that parental love subsided, as it usually always does. Don't be mean and hurtful to your parents if they're good parents and supportive and present. Not all of us had that luxury. Some of us were castaways everyone else had to step in to raise. Some of us were the obligation no one really wanted but got stuck with ...