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Authors: Kaci Hart
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, series, Spirituality, Religious, Christian, Friendship, Inspirational, Bachelor, Faith, therapy, Forever Love, Single Woman, Clean & Wholesome, Hearts Desire, Love Inspired, Stanton Falls, Survivual, Rough Childhood
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mother wiped her
hand on her apron and then placed it on her hip.
“Well gosh honey, you
know you could have just given your old mother that one.”
“I could have, you are
right, but then I’d be just as wrong as you are. It’s not my fault you
waited until you were twenty four to have your first child. And you are
still young mom. You’re not even fifty for a few years.”
“Did you just say that?
You’re supposed to say that I don’t look a day over forty.
Really, do you have any good girlfriends with those comments?”
“Yes I do mother, I just
choose to be honest with people is all.”
“Enough about my slow
aging. Back to you. When I was your age, I was happily in love.
I had hoped that when you came back from school, you would have found
yourself some nice doctor or lawyer to bring home to eat one day. Right
now I’m getting a little desperate as a mother so I will now settle for any
man, as long as he has a job. ”
“Mom I know you didn’t
just seriously go from talking about dad to this? Yea, that’s a great
idea. Let’s go ahead and continue creating that correlation between dad
and any man I might be considering.”
“But sweetie, I wasn’t
really talking about your father. I was talking about myself and you and
what I want for you in life. What any loving mother wants for their
daughter.”
Donna felt her patience
leaving her. Times like then she hated the most because they were the
times she reminded herself of her father. Temper short, and a little bit
of anger coming out. She always fought to control that part of her.
The part of her that she knew had to come from him. Whenever her
mother went into those pie in the sky love stories that was when it tipped the
scale for her. Still, she tried to talk to her mother with respect. She’d
been spoken to badly for long enough already.
“What do I deserve mom?
Love? Marriage? A relationship? Didn’t you realize all
of that was a waste of time with dad?”
“Oh honey, none of it
was a waste of time. Yes, your father and I had issues, but we also had love.
And we had you as a result of that love. Now your father and
I are not you and our issues do not determine the future that you are going to
have. You do.”
Her mother walked around
the counter, giving her daughter a tight hug.
“You know you amaze me
sometimes Donna. For you to be such an intelligent person it is
interesting how you could be so oblivious to your own truths at the same time.”
“Why do you say that
mom?”
“Honey, you and I both know
that if you were in your office talking to a patient and they laid out their
life and actions like you have, you would have told them that they have daddy
issues and that they shouldn’t let that interfere with finding someone to
love.”
Donna stood in the
kitchen silently looking at her mother. She knew her mother loved her and she
knew she wanted to help her. She also knew that her mother was right.
In fact, she had recently had a client that she had had that very same
conversation with a few weeks back. Beyond that, on many a night
when she sat at home alone wondering what was going on with her life, she had
told herself the same thing as well. But knowing it and doing it were two
different things. She knew she shielded herself from relationships with
men because it would be easier to protect herself than to let her defenses
down. Typical fight or flight only she found that since her
childhood, she’d never stopped running. If her mom could break it down to
her like that, then she had to admit the truth of it. What kind of
therapist would she be if she couldn’t take advice herself?
“Alright mom. You
win.”
“I win?”
“Yeah you win.
You’re completely right about me not dating anyone. I don’t like
the idea of getting hurt and I do
hand on her apron and then placed it on her hip.
“Well gosh honey, you
know you could have just given your old mother that one.”
“I could have, you are
right, but then I’d be just as wrong as you are. It’s not my fault you
waited until you were twenty four to have your first child. And you are
still young mom. You’re not even fifty for a few years.”
“Did you just say that?
You’re supposed to say that I don’t look a day over forty.
Really, do you have any good girlfriends with those comments?”
“Yes I do mother, I just
choose to be honest with people is all.”
“Enough about my slow
aging. Back to you. When I was your age, I was happily in love.
I had hoped that when you came back from school, you would have found
yourself some nice doctor or lawyer to bring home to eat one day. Right
now I’m getting a little desperate as a mother so I will now settle for any
man, as long as he has a job. ”
“Mom I know you didn’t
just seriously go from talking about dad to this? Yea, that’s a great
idea. Let’s go ahead and continue creating that correlation between dad
and any man I might be considering.”
“But sweetie, I wasn’t
really talking about your father. I was talking about myself and you and
what I want for you in life. What any loving mother wants for their
daughter.”
Donna felt her patience
leaving her. Times like then she hated the most because they were the
times she reminded herself of her father. Temper short, and a little bit
of anger coming out. She always fought to control that part of her.
The part of her that she knew had to come from him. Whenever her
mother went into those pie in the sky love stories that was when it tipped the
scale for her. Still, she tried to talk to her mother with respect. She’d
been spoken to badly for long enough already.
“What do I deserve mom?
Love? Marriage? A relationship? Didn’t you realize all
of that was a waste of time with dad?”
“Oh honey, none of it
was a waste of time. Yes, your father and I had issues, but we also had love.
And we had you as a result of that love. Now your father and
I are not you and our issues do not determine the future that you are going to
have. You do.”
Her mother walked around
the counter, giving her daughter a tight hug.
“You know you amaze me
sometimes Donna. For you to be such an intelligent person it is
interesting how you could be so oblivious to your own truths at the same time.”
“Why do you say that
mom?”
“Honey, you and I both know
that if you were in your office talking to a patient and they laid out their
life and actions like you have, you would have told them that they have daddy
issues and that they shouldn’t let that interfere with finding someone to
love.”
Donna stood in the
kitchen silently looking at her mother. She knew her mother loved her and she
knew she wanted to help her. She also knew that her mother was right.
In fact, she had recently had a client that she had had that very same
conversation with a few weeks back. Beyond that, on many a night
when she sat at home alone wondering what was going on with her life, she had
told herself the same thing as well. But knowing it and doing it were two
different things. She knew she shielded herself from relationships with
men because it would be easier to protect herself than to let her defenses
down. Typical fight or flight only she found that since her
childhood, she’d never stopped running. If her mom could break it down to
her like that, then she had to admit the truth of it. What kind of
therapist would she be if she couldn’t take advice herself?
“Alright mom. You
win.”
“I win?”
“Yeah you win.
You’re completely right about me not dating anyone. I don’t like
the idea of getting hurt and I do
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