They will believe they have permission to live only as fully as their mothers allowed themselves to live. They will feel obligated to love as well as their mothers loved, after all. Because if we show them that being a martyr is the highest form of love, that is what they will become. What a terrible burden for our daughters to bear-to know that if they choose to become mothers, this will be their fate, too. What a terrible burden for children to bear-to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. “Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time.
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