It sounds like it should be so simple, but those people just wouldn’t get it. They wouldn’t know what it’s like to spend your whole life feeling like you have to give your all in anything your mother tells you to do if you ever want there to be a chance you could eventually be good enough for her. They wouldn’t know what it’s like to grow up letting your mother dictate every choice you make and every path you take and every word you say because you were terrified that if you ever did something wrong, that would diminish any possibility of her ever loving you.

