Maron seems to own his assholishness.

Spoiled, entitled or a young woman whose life was turned upside-down?

Sigh. We were all children though and understand loving the one that feeds you...no matter how flawed or shitty they may be.

Happy reunions are tough even years later.

Look, the bio mom is a victim, and she has a right to her feelings- but she needs to share them with family, friends, support group, pastor or therapist - not the press. Her daughter doesn’t need to see things like this and it will just make the gulf wider.

We know that the kidnapper is not her mother but she believes that she is and HER feelings are the ones that matter. Not the bio Mom’s, not the kidnapper, not ours, HERS are the only one that matters in this. Trying to force a different reality on her is why they are in this situation now. She doesn’t get it, even…

Not really. I think its less about being “mature” and more about having the empathy for your child that he or she is entitled to by virtue of that relationship. As a parent of a toddler, when she says things like “go away mommy” or “i dont want you mommy” I don’t get hurt or say “fine!” and flounce away, I just tell…

Being in pain doesn’t give you the right to inflict pain on someone else, believe that. Too many people make that mistake.

Glad she’s owning her feelings. We cannot blame Alexis (as she calls herself) - she was a newborn, she was raised by Williams, snowed like everyone else by Williams, was bonded to Williams. Of course she’s going to send the woman Mother’s Day cards and feel the need to be in contact with her: she has no memory of…

What a shitty, shitty comment by the birth mother.

So correct. WHile I can understand (I didn’t say KNOW but understand) how the biological mother might feel, the notion that her daughter is “disrespecting her” by wanting to continue a connection with the only person she has known as a parent seems to convey the notion that the daughter owes her something.

Agreed. Of course this is made all the more heartbreaking by the fact that her daughter still loves the woman who kidnapped her, but she has to put herself in her daughter’s shoes - Williams may be a kidnapper but she was also her daughter’s mother, is still her daughter’s mother and you can’t undo that just because…

It’s weird to me that she’s not more understanding of her daughter’s dual loyalty and is preferring to continue to keep her out of her life even longer.

“I shouldn’t have to compete with a kidnapper—she has to pick one of us,” Shanara said.

No Mom, she doesn’t have to pick one of you, the kidnapper has been her Mother all of her life, it’s not going to stop because you wish it would . What you should do is try to understand instead of punishing your daughter. You’re the grown up here come on now.

Mobley is frustrated but giving a 19-year old an ultimatum to cut off the relationship with the rightly convicted woman who raised her and giving an interview to a tabloid helps no one.

I feel her pain but she needs to understand kidnapper or no, this is the only mother that child has known, and it is going to take awhile to process that the person that I love has also done a most horrible and despicable act.

Shitty as it was...that’s the woman she knows as her mother. This isn’t a 3 or 4 year old, so it’s not something you can “undo” in a few years.

Oooh boy, this really hit home for me. Especially the part about our bodies “not belonging to us.” I took part in the True Love Waits movement (with the rings and signed pledges and all that bullshit) and we used to memorize scripture that said “Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, therefore glorify God with…

Every religion and church is a pyramid scheme designed to take people’s money from them.