We often forget our moms are 3 dimensional people. When did you realize she had lived, loved, and had joy and sorrow in her life before you were born? Did that make you relate to her more?

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  1. I always KNEW she had a life before me but honestly it’s only been in the past 10ish years where I’ve seen pictures of her partying (nothing too crazy), traveling, working and just doing normal 20 to 30 something things where I’ve been able on a deeper level to go “ah, that’s right, Mom was once my age too.”

  2. i’m 35 and i still haven’t

    my parents have literally never talked about their lives and just give me one word answers when i ask

  3. So did any father. And both decided to make a child. Both decided to leave that child and push it off to someone else. I very much realize they had lives before I existed. And much like you it seem they saw not as a full life to have a child.

    Which is ironic because just because you pick up responsibility for the human you created your life doesn’t be come any less full. It usually is quite the opposite for healthy adults to feel even more fulfilled when having offspring of their own.

  4. I wanna say 13, but it could’ve been sooner. Tbh I may have always kind of knew, because my parents are open about their lives, more so my mom.

  7. Yes. Moms didn’t become moms by keeping her legs together. They myth of virgin motherhood is nonsense.

  8. My mom was never really secretive about her life, she wanted us to learn from his mistakes. She had me at 17 so there wasn’t a lot before, though.

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