“And it just hit me. I just remembered how much I loved my mom. It was as if I had forgotten how much I loved her”

As much as I wish otherwise, Mother’s Day is always painful for me.

Just as a fish doesn’t know it’s in water, often times we ourselves don’t know we inhabit dysfunctional living environments, especially when we are born into them. Up until I was 26 years old, this was the case with me.