What To Do When You Need a Mother (Part 2)
On mothers and fathers, love and hate, loss and growth
“I have been examining losses. These lifelong losses. These necessary losses. These losses we confront when we are confronted by the inescapable fact…
-that our mother is going to leave us, and we will leave her;
-that our mother’s love can never be ours alone;
-that what hurts us cannot always be kissed and made better;
-that we are essentially out here on our own;
-that we will have to accept—in other people and ourselves—the mingling of love with hate, of the good with the bad;