What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (What We Don't Talk About Book 1)

by Michele Filgate

Lies make fools of the people we love.

There is a gaping hole perhaps for all of us, where our mother does not match up with “mother” as we believe it’s meant to mean and all it’s meant to give us. What I cannot tell her is all that I would tell her if I could find a way to not still be sad and angry about that.

Everything I am is proof that she was wrong about me, and yet the woman I’ve known for my entire life does not apologize, does not admit to fault.

my identity has been shaped by what she is not; she is, for me, an example of how not to conduct a life.