This And The Fic Based On It Are Just Art Bro

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Mother's Day can be a painful reminder, so here's a salute to all the kids and adult children who grew up with absent mothers, angry mothers, negligent mothers, abusive mothers, overly-critical mothers, codependent mothers, overwhelmed and struggling mothers, mothers who ignored your cries for help, mothers who sacrificed your happiness to placate others, mothers who tried to do better but failed, and mothers who didn't try quite hard enough.

And to every child and adult who has a complicated relationship with their mother or caretaker--it's okay to feel conflicted. It's okay to feel hurt and love and resentment and pain and sympathy and longing and guilt bundled up into one big tangled ball. It's okay to struggle to reconcile the bad memories with the good ones that simultaneously exist. It's okay to be angry about the ways your parent failed you, and also aware of their personal struggles, and the way their parents in turn failed them. It's okay to recognize that you were loved but also that you were treated unfairly, unkindly. Contradictions are the natural state of the world. Multiple truths coexist. It's okay to be conflicted.

Parents are humans. Human relationships are complicated, and cannot be summarized by a greeting card. Wherever you are coming from, I hope your future holds healing and love, love, love.

Enemies to lovers but it's two people who go from being mormon and jw to exmormon and exjw

i love my lesbian mutuals esp gnc lesbians esp he/him lesbians and nonbinary lesbians i hope youre all having a good day

me: (listens to ‘take on me’)

me, who was not alive in the 80s: god this really brings me back

I hope everyone with religious trauma finds their truth. Whether it’s a new religion, no religion at all, a new passion or hobby, self acceptance, etc. I hope you are free to be effortlessly yourself and you find peace in your life. <3

saw a post a while back about Sophie making increasingly gaudy hats for Howl for every birthday and him absolutely loving them