Sunday, September 14, 2025

For All The "Thrown-Away" Mothers.

I found this on Quora  posted by Jupiter12 and it's just so perfectly exact:

From unknown writer referring to today’s alienation of parents by millennials:

The self-help culture has built an emotional economy

where the more “toxic” your parent was, the more healed you must be now.

Estrangement is branded as strength.

Numbness is relabeled as peace.

And the mother?

She becomes disposable.

You’ll see entire feeds built around blaming her.

Millions of views.

Billions of likes.

A cultural echo chamber whispering: She was the problem.

And the irony?

She’s still the one grieving the hardest.

Still the one hurting the deepest.

Still the one not allowed to say a word.

She’s Not Even Allowed to Have Feelings

This is what no one talks about:

The mother—the woman who gave you life—

Is not even allowed to have a life of her own.

She’s not allowed to cry.

Not allowed to break down.

Not allowed to say she’s exhausted.

Not allowed to feel pain from being discarded.

Not allowed to have needs.

Not allowed to show emotion.

Because the moment she does?

“She’s manipulative.”

“She’s guilt-tripping.”

“She’s making it about her.”

“She’s toxic.”

The culture expects her to surrender her entire self,

every emotion, every need, every human limit—

in silence.

And when she finally breaks from the weight of all that expectation?

They say, “See? She’s the problem.”

And If We’re All Telepathic…

Here’s what no one considers:

If we are all connected energetically—

If we can pick up thoughts, feelings, judgments like signals—

Then you can adopt someone else’s hatred without even realizing it.

It doesn’t take abuse.

It doesn’t take words.

It doesn’t even take conflict.

Just being in the presence of someone who resents your mother

can distort your energetic field.

Their thoughts can feel like yours.

Their pain becomes the filter you look through.

You start remembering differently.

You start feeling things that never belonged to you.

You start questioning love that was always there—

because now you're tuned to a frequency that doesn't reflect the truth.

That’s not healing.

That’s hijacking.

And no one is warning people how spiritually dangerous that is.

And Then You Wonder Why She’s Mad

You wonder why the mother is angry.

Why she cries.

Why she says things you don’t want to hear.

Why she’s not as “graceful” as you want her to be.

But you’ve stripped her of everything—

and then expected her to be silent about it.

You erased her story.

You diagnosed her without asking.

You decided her whole identity was based on your pain.

And now she’s not even allowed to feel that loss.

This isn’t just unjust.

It’s inhumane.

This Is the Culture We’ve Built

We are watching an entire generation of mothers be rewritten,

not because they failed,

but because they were human during times no one else would’ve survived.

We are calling imperfection abuse,

pain trauma,

and discomfort justification for abandonment.

We are turning the ones who gave us everything

into the scapegoats of our self-discovery.

And the world is cheering it on.

If You Are That Mother

You are not toxic for being emotional.

You are not broken for being hurt.

You are not wrong for feeling angry at the rewriting of your story.

You are a woman.

A human.

A mother who stayed.

You were never meant to be erased.

You are not disposable.

You are sacred.

And no one—not a therapist, not a coach, not even your own child’s misremembered pain—

can define your legacy without your voice.

Let this be a reckoning.

For every mother who is grieving a child still alive.

For every woman who stayed and was still betrayed.

For every soul who gave life and was repaid with silence, blame, or distance.

The world has forgotten the cost of motherhood.

But we will not.


 

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