Their voices together are sooooo smooth (like a smoothie!)

Hey, remember when he told us it was going to have two female leads? There must be some way that "female" equals two...gimmie a pencil and then let's go to Taco Bell. [passes bong back]

Two lost families is two too many. I’m so sorry. Hope you now have a good chosen family to embrace and nurture you.

My stepdad went through this, it was devastating to watch. He wouldn’t even visit her on her death bed and I can understand why.

You are not. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. My mother cut off contact with her abusive mother (let someone sexually assault her from the age of 3-8 and defends herself on it plus a multitude of other emotional abuse and manipulation) and people still talk to her as if she is a horrible person for cutting her…

You are not.

As a child of a parent who had a shit childhood but made an incredible one for his kids, thank you for breaking the cycle. Your kids are lucky to have you.

That sounds like a pretty awesome arrangement you have there.

Yeah. My mom does holiday crafts for her class but keeps them generic (like mother’s day is a flowered frame but it doesn’t actually say mother’s day) and makes sure the kids know they can go to anyone since lot are missing one or both of their parents.

Come to my house, fellow Mother’s Day issue-haver. I have cuddly dogs and cats and a cabinet full of various boozes and a Netflix subscription.

I can take or leave Mother’s Day, but I do try to give my kids all the emotional support, love, and confidence that my parents couldn’t or wouldn’t give me.

You are not a piece of shit.

I have always loathed this “holiday,” but now that I have my own children I tolerate it. They give me Nutella and let me sleep in, and in return I work to make them feel all the love, support, and acceptance that was sorely missing from my childhood.

This is my mother minus drinking plus that EXACT haircut.

YOU ARE LOVED AND STRONG AND BRAVE AND I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU.

Thank you so much for this! I was taken away from my mother when I was a child due to serious neglect. The apartment we were living in was condemned. She left, didn’t even try to get me back or see me. No phone calls, nothing. Just left while I wondered why. I got that we weren’t living right, didn’t understand the…

I was adopted as a baby, and emancipated at 14 from my second family for these reasons. I find this time of year especially hard and it’s always good to know I am not alone in this.

My dad had to do this with not just his mother, but his two toxic sisters too. After his dad died, he had no tie to his side of the family any more. I remember we were constantly either not talking to them or, when we were talking, we were fighting. 10 years ago he said he was 100% done, and hasn’t spoken to them…