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.

beg you” she pleads with

is a look I’ve never seen her direct

table as they talk?” Martha, Rowan’s mom asks Corrine while cutting off what I was about

After all, it was known that

chance. Instead she links their hands and pulls

direction.

leave me alone until you’ve said your piece, so do it now before I change my mind” I tell her

changed when I realized that she didn’t feel the same way. It changed when I realized she treated me as if I was more of a burden, than a

seat before taking my hands in hers. I pull them away. Not wanting her to touch me.

Ava. More than you’ll ever know” she whispers, folding

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arms. I used to crave it. Pray for it. Hope for the day to come.

and instead of embracing you, I pushed you away. You loved me, loved us, but we gave you nothing but scorn. I wish more than anything that I could go back in time and change things. Go back and be

can have. It took almost losing you to realize how much you mean to