When I worked extra shifts, they said I was never home. When Liam slept until noon, they said he had been up late “working.”
Liam was the investment.
I was the utility.
If I complained, my mother would narrow her eyes and say, “After everything we’ve done for you.” Pregnancy& Maternity
It took me years to understand that in my family, love was not really love. It was a debt they kept rewriting whenever they needed control.