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

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

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

skeptical. Like she didn’t want to leave me. After all, it was known that the Sharp family weren’t

Corrine a chance. Instead she links their hands and pulls her away

direction.

sigh and take my seat. “Let’s just get this over with, looks like you won’t leave me alone until you’ve said your piece, so

changed when I realized that she didn’t feel the same way.

away. Not wanting her to touch me. I didn’t want her near me. The part of me that had longed

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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 is

child 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

your value. Never acknowledged that you’re the best daughter anyone can have. It took almost losing you to realize how much you