Yesterday was Mother’s Day.\u00a0 Social media was full of folks praising their own moms and wives, often accompanied by photos of said moms, both old and new.\u00a0 And that was fun- especially some of the older ones!\u00a0\u00a0But, social media being what it is, it’s often tough to know who’s being 100% genuine and who’s embellishing to get likes.\u00a0 I’m not saying this to be cynical, it’s just the truth of what social media IS.<\/p>\n
I usually don’t post a lot on Mother’s Day.\u00a0 Not because I don’t love my mom, because I do.\u00a0 Not because she didn’t do the best job she could of raising me, because she did.\u00a0 But, she and I don’t have a Hallmark Card kind of relationship.\u00a0 She’s not my best friend.\u00a0 She isn’t the first person I go to for advice.\u00a0 We don’t share clothes.\u00a0 \u00a0We talk, but not every day and not about everything.\u00a0 And that’s OK.<\/p>\n
There are women who are shocked and aghast at the very suggestion that Mom and I are not besties.\u00a0 \u00a0If you have that kind of relationship with your Mom I guess it would be hard for you to understand that not everyone has- or even wants- that with their mother.\u00a0 But I suspect that there are WAY more women like me out there – ones with the sometimes complicated, sometimes stressed, sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating, always real relationships with the woman who brought them into the world.\u00a0 And that’s OK for ALL of us, in spite of what Hallmark or Facebook tells you.\u00a0 Even on Mother’s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday was Mother’s Day.\u00a0 Social media was full of folks praising their own moms and wives, often accompanied by photos of said moms, both old and new.\u00a0 And that was fun- especially some of the older ones!\u00a0\u00a0But, social media being what it is, it’s often tough to know who’s being 100% genuine and who’s embellishing to get likes.\u00a0 I’m not… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myself","category-warm-fuzzies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t