My Family Told Me To Call A Cab When Labor Started Then Came Asking To See The Baby

about myself.

If she ever called me needing help, I would drop everything.

And for the first time in my life, I realized something profound.

The cycle hadn’t ended when I became a mother. It ended when I chose to be a different one. Not the one my family was. Not someone who measured her children against each other, who protected favorites, who abandoned continue reading …