Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

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“Ava can we please talk?” mother pleads when I move to leave.

I stare at her, not sure what she wanted. What was there to talk about? Hasn’t everything already been said and done?

“There isn’t anything for us to talk about, Mother” I insist.

Looking back, I see now how I made a distinction when it came to her and father. While Emma and Travis referred to them as mom and dad, to me they were Father and Mother. Clean, cut and completely impersonal.

I never truly acknowledged them as my parents, because deep down I just knew. Parents don’t hate their children. Parents don’t neglect their child and treat them like shit. I made what I called them impersonal because on a spiritual level, I didn’t consider them my parents.

you” she pleads with tears in

eyes. Her face flushed and soft. This is a look I’ve never seen her direct at me. Her face was always in a frown. She always looked at me

they talk?” Martha, Rowan’s mom asks

Like she didn’t want to leave me. After all, it was known

doesn’t give Corrine a chance. Instead she links

direction.

just get this over with, looks like you won’t leave me alone

to adore this woman back in my younger days. When I was around five or six. That quickly changed when I realized that she didn’t feel the

Not wanting her to touch me. I didn’t want

you’ll ever

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this moment. Always day dreamed of her apologizing to me, then pulling me into her arms. I used to crave it. Pray for it. Hope for the day to come. Now that it’s here, the joy I thought I would feel

you nothing

the best daughter anyone can have. It took almost losing you to realize how much you mean to