~~ I LOVED YOU ENOUGH ~~

Some day when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I will tell them: I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to ask you about where you were going, with whom, and what time you would get home. I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to insist that you buy a bike that we could afford to give you with your own money. I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to be silent and let you discover that your hand-picked friend was a creep. I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to make you return a Milky Way -- with a bite out of it -- to a drugstore and to confess:  "I stole this." I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your room, a job that would have taken me fifteen minutes. I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to let you see anger, disappointment, disgust, and tears in my eyes. I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to admit I was wrong and ask for your forgiveness. I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to let you stumble, fall, and hurt. I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to let you assume the responsibility for your actions at 6,10, or 16. But, most of all, I LOVED YOU ENOUGH to say NO when you hated me for it.  that was the hardest part of all. -- Author Unknown --

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