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We are sharing education and support about the mother wound

03/18/2026

Invalidating a sibling’s lived experience just because it differs from your own does not make their story any less real. It often reflects how a dysfunctional family system conditions people to deny what feels uncomfortable or inconvenient.

Sharing a home does not mean sharing the same reality, and different truths can exist at the same time. Ignoring that only protects the dysfunction.

03/14/2026

When a family protects an abuser, they make the choice simple: accept the abuse or lose everyone. That’s not estrangement. That’s a door being slammed from the inside.

03/12/2026

What do you wish your parent(s) would stop saying either to you or about you to other people?

03/10/2026

My mother always told me she would love me no matter what. Turns out, there were invisible lines in the sand I wasn’t supposed to cross and decisions I wasn’t supposed to make if I wanted to keep that “love” intact.

The moment I chose something she didn’t approve of, the terms and conditions came out fast and furious (emphasis on furious.)

03/08/2026

Parenting is a lifetime commitment. It doesn’t end the day your kid can legally buy ci******es.

If you spend their childhood counting down the days until you can kick them out of the nest, don’t act surprised when that choice shapes your relationship with your adult child.

03/06/2026

Nobody teaches you what to do when the person who was supposed to love you first is the one you have to heal from. You spend years minimizing it, reframing it and surviving it. Then one day you stop shrinking around her and start trusting what you always knew.

03/05/2026

You’re required to “try” forever. They’re allowed to refuse forever. You can communicate exactly how your parent made you feel and it won’t matter if they’ve already decided to let themselves off the hook.

When their comfort consistently outranks your experience, the issue was never your communication. The issue is that accountability was never on the table.

03/03/2026

🎵 I would do anything for (my kids), but I won’t do that. 🎵

- Meatloaf (kind of)

Kids these days don’t expect perfection from their parents, they want accountability.

02/28/2026

Get 5 across, diagonal or up and down? Yell bingo in the comments.

(Extra points form 4 corners and/or a full board)

02/27/2026

Okay. You provided food and shelter. You sent them to good schools and showed up at sporting events. You took them on vacations and out to eat. You bought them gifts and clothes.

That doesn’t mean your children owe you a debt.

You don’t get to behave however you want and expect access to their lives in return. You aren’t automatically entitled to their time, their loyalty, or a relationship with your grandchildren. You were a parent. You did what parents are supposed to do.

If you’re now spending time reminding your children of “all the things you did for them,” the message you’re sending is clear. You believe you’ve completed your obligation and are now owed something back. But relationships don’t work like transactions.

Adult children today are no longer willing to be guilted into maintaining relationships with people who see love and care as something that accrues interest. A healthy relationship isn’t payback for the past. It’s something that continues to be nurtured in the present.

02/24/2026

Hi fellow wanderer lost in the woods, any idea how we find our way out of here?

Yes, this is how it looks to everyone else…

02/21/2026

It’s true that many people don’t fully come to terms with how they were treated by their mother until they become parents themselves. Faced with the responsibility of raising a child, they often find that the idea of parenting as they were parented does not bring clarity. Instead, it can make their own parents’ choices feel even harder to understand.

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