Questions and discussions about relationships: girlfriends, boyfriends, lovers, partners, friends, family or other intimate relationships in your lives.
It can be so frustrating to feel like a parent isn't hearing us, or isn't offering sympathy or support when that's what we're aiming for!
Can you tell me a little more about your relationship with your mom? Is it otherwise positive and this is just a frustrating dynamic that's in the mix? Or is this part of a bigger pattern where you feel like your mom doesn't hear you or notice what you're actually doing?
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow/with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go/turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain/and like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.