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ABANDONED MOTHERS
There is a noxious war being waged by estranged adult children …
The actual casualty of the war is:
The Mother
Not the absent Mother
Not the abusive Mother
Not the dead-beat Mother.
Not the uncaring Mother
But the Mother who loved and stayed
The Mother who broke herself into pieces to keep everything together …. The Mother who gave up her own identity so her children could find theirs…- The Mother who fed, clothed, soothed, worked, and showed up … The Mother who may also have had the role of an absent father.
These Mothers are being told to…
· Just quietly and gracefully, vanish, from the face of the earth, while adult children, wage war, and whine to others, with reinventions of their history, childhood, and their relationships with their mothers, and
· To shut up and accept the blame.
· To not complain.
· To not have needs.
· To not have feelings.
· To not get tired of blame shifting.
· To not be hurt.
· To not be emotional.
· To not be angry.
· To not defend themselves.
· To accept the reinventions and untruths.
Their reinventions then become indictments, waged against the mother, by people who do not even know the mother nor the truth.
· The mother is diagnosed as the bad person
· The mother is labeled as the trigger in a made-up story.
· The mother is the villain based on untruths
· The mother is dehumanized
· No one will think to ask for facts
· No one will think to seek the truth or content
· No one will think to help seek resolution
· No one will think to ask for a healing
· No one will think the adult child is the problem
· No one will think to ask the mother to speak for herself.
· Instead, they will validate the adult child’s reinvention.
· They will determine the mother’s entire identity.
· They will determine the mother is inhuman.
· They will determine the mother is the villain.
· They will diagnose the mother without facts.
· They will let the perpetrator be harmless.
· In other words, no one will think for themselves…
And the irony of this war is…
· The mother must remain silent.
· The mother is not allowed to get mad.
· The mother grieves the loss the hardest.
· The mother hurts the deepest.
· The mother is not allowed to say a word.
· The mother is not allowed to have feelings.
· The mother is not allowed to say how she feels.
· The mother is not allowed to cry.
· The mother is not allowed to be exhausted
· The mother is not allowed to feel pain.
· The mother is not allowed to have emotions.
· The mother is not allowed to have needs.
· The mother is not allowed to be upset about the reinventions and made-up stories.
· The mother must willingly be the scapegoat
· The mother must be dehumanized.
· The mother must accept her rewritten history and identity.
Because if she does not accept this role and speaks up, she will be called…
· “Manipulative”
· “Guilt-tripping”
· “Toxic”
· “Making it all about herself.”
· “She’s the problem”
If you are an estranged mother…
You are the one who willingly paid the cost of birthhood and motherhood and was repaid with blame, silence, betrayal, and distance, so, please, do not forget…
· You stayed
· You are a human
· You are a woman
· You are not toxic
· You are not broken
· You are not the blame
· You are not defined by the pain inflicted.
· You are not meant to be silent
· You are not meant to be diagnosed
· You are not meant to be judged.
· You are not meant to quietly vanish.
· You are not meant to be erased
· You did not create the distance
· You did not create the situation
· You are not disposable
· You are loved.
· You are beautiful.
· You are smart.
· You are kind
· you are caring
· you are loving
· You are precious
· You are unique
· You are strong
· You happily gave life
· And most importantly it is not you…





