This is Where We Talk Things Out

by Caitlin Marceau

“You always do this. You take everything I say and you twist it and turn it against me.

You always make me out to be some kind of monster when all I’m trying to do is keep our family together.

“You fucked me up for a long time. And I mean a long time.”

“But I’m tired of you acting like we’re friends. Like we’re close. Like I had a picture-perfect childhood where everything was happy and easy and good. I didn’t. It wasn't.”

I think you think you were a great mom, but you were selfish and you were mean and you made everything about you.