I love your updates, but I get tense while reading them. I will be in your shoes in a few years. So much of this is normal stuff but we moms know there is an extra layer. It’s tough. I hope you find wonderful things too!
I could really feel the intensity of this moment you both your lives. You were there for her and your self - with the help of the cousin. It's inspirational, that the letting go I so fear and that is so inevitable might be survivable. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing! I loved visualizing this adventure and feel some of those feelings. My 17-year old and I are working on being close when our beliefs aren't the same. I want her to be her own person but it is hard to release her to a world where other adults believe what she believes (or fake it under the heading of kindness). But to keep her home and not let her go to camp next week for her Autism feels like I am not letting her live. Her inflexible thinking may only change by making her own mistakes. I have a year to see if she is ready for college (another place a dread seeing her go).
So hard to let go, especially with the crazy that looms all around us. Letting go of the illusion that I can somehow create a 'safe-space" where ever she goes it a tough one.
Isn't this the dance we do as moms? And ultimately, I think recognizing that Life isn't safe brings some freedom from the Mama Bear directive of trying to create that 'safe-space' wherever they go... To believe we can is an illusion anyway.
I love your updates, but I get tense while reading them. I will be in your shoes in a few years. So much of this is normal stuff but we moms know there is an extra layer. It’s tough. I hope you find wonderful things too!
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I could really feel the intensity of this moment you both your lives. You were there for her and your self - with the help of the cousin. It's inspirational, that the letting go I so fear and that is so inevitable might be survivable. Thanks for sharing.
That it might be "survivable." Love this. Life really does persist. Hang in there, Mama!
Very happy to read this update.
Thank you for sharing! I loved visualizing this adventure and feel some of those feelings. My 17-year old and I are working on being close when our beliefs aren't the same. I want her to be her own person but it is hard to release her to a world where other adults believe what she believes (or fake it under the heading of kindness). But to keep her home and not let her go to camp next week for her Autism feels like I am not letting her live. Her inflexible thinking may only change by making her own mistakes. I have a year to see if she is ready for college (another place a dread seeing her go).
So hard to let go, especially with the crazy that looms all around us. Letting go of the illusion that I can somehow create a 'safe-space" where ever she goes it a tough one.
Isn't this the dance we do as moms? And ultimately, I think recognizing that Life isn't safe brings some freedom from the Mama Bear directive of trying to create that 'safe-space' wherever they go... To believe we can is an illusion anyway.
Sounds like success to me!