My mother completely rejected me. She said some harsh things to me and told me that I had made a vow to God and I had disobeyed my marriage vows. I would hear from people I knew that she was talking about me and praying for me that I would see things the way that she wanted me to see things. I had made a decision to better myself and to become happy, and my mother could not understand that and didn’t want to understand it. So we were estranged for over five years.
