The first betrayals are the hardest to name. These are the ones that shaped how I learned to love, fear, and survive.
I was just being a big sister But nothing about that day was simple. “This was just one more brick in a path of one-sided loyalty.” -Big Sister I Was Just Being a Big Sister But Nothing About That Day Was Simple. There are days that stay with you. Not because of what someone said,…
The Disrespect Was in the Details There are some things you just don’t expect to have to say out loud.“Don’t be intimate in my bed” is one of them. But I found myself needing to say it—after the fact. And not because I was trying to be petty, but because the disrespect hit me in…
The oldest child’s perspective on a mother divided by time Every woman shifts with the seasons of her life.And every mother becomes a different version of herself in each one. First, she’s just her.Then she enters a relationship—or a marriage—and something in her shifts.Then comes her first child… and that’s a whole new version.And with…
