What I Learned
Here’s what I wish I’d known sooner:
Teaching people how to treat you isn’t cruel. It’s necessary.
Boundaries aren’t walls. They’re doors. And you get to decide who walks through.
Being a mother doesn’t mean erasing yourself.
And sometimes, the most loving thing you can do is step back and let someone face the consequences of their choices.
Because that Christmas dinner, when Erin said my needs came last?
She gave me permission to stop pretending they didn’t.
So I let that sentence do its job.
And it changed everything.
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