#mother wound

[maabelasdaruth]

"If you don't get fed love on a silver spoon, you'll learn to lick it off knives."

You never wanted silver spoons but her love was knives dipped in honey. Your All-Mother loved you only in compliance and you shaped yourself around her body. Oh the things we do to become worthy. A beast can only be fed scraps so long before they become the knife. When you are expected to betray yourself for love, she will call it betrayal when you don't. Nevermind she betrayed you first. How many times will you betray yourself for her memory?

We never had any silver spoons where I grew up loved in the dirt. There love meant keeping you alive, no matter how it hurts. Mamae loved me through her hopes and expectations, to mold me into the shape of a survivor. Gentle love will get you killed, but strict love was supposed to keep you safe. A lifetime trying to fill a role that was all you were ever supposed to be. How I tried to carve away all of me that did not fit within it. Do I want a love that hurts because my heart knows no other definition?

[liberaljane]

Your feelings are valid on too. Special shoutout to all the cycle breakers. 💐

Created with Mother Wound Project

Digital illustration depicting three generations of women with a ribbon linking all of them. The scene includes an elderly Latina woman shrugging, a middle-age Afrolatina woman dodging the ribbon & her daughter cutting the ribbon. Text reads, “pain travels through families until someone is ready to feel it” by Stephi Wagner

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[rozcdust]

growing up with an angry father is terrifying but growing up a daughter with an angry mother is gut wrenching because you get it, you understand that she’s been worn down by the world and being treated as less and she’s been carrying the rage and traumas of her mother and her mother before her and her mother before her and when you see her you recognise that same rage in you

but her rage is not pointed at the world, it’s pointed at you because you’re 14 and not used to the harshness of it yet but she will make sure you get there and you don’t know what to do but cry and she hates seeing your tears because they make her nauseous

growing up with an angry mother feels like being ripped apart because you know she loves you, she’s your worst enemy, she makes you feel safe, she terrifies you, she’s your best friend, she’s the reason you can’t let people get close, you love her, you never cried over a boy or a girl as much as you cried over her words, she made you, you’re her puppet, you’re desperate to leave, you’ll never escape her blood or her judging gaze and even when you leave you can hear her voice in your head and it will haunt you until you’re dead

you understand her rage but you see it in yourself and that scares you more than anything else

[septemberkisses]

credits: ig/said.vesmir

[mad-girlslove-song]

"my mother" by lea jane

[1dramaprincess]

I come from a long line of mean women who shouldn’t have had children, but did anyway.

[theereina]

The only child I have the capacity to take care of is my inner child. I do not currently want children, and I may never want children. My wounds are too deep. The amount of healing I need may take a lifetime, and I refuse to put any child through that.

Children deserve happiness without conditions. My health, both mental and physical, are conditions I WILL NOT subject any children to endure.

To the children I will probably never have, this comes from a place of love and selflessness. I just hope the world can understand.

[evastraea]

[hatred-rage-and-repression]

Deep down I wanna be worse because I deserve it... I don't wanna be happy, safe, or loved. They are such alienated feelings to me... I deserve to live a life full of misery, because I am evil.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[m-d-s-a]

Peg Streep, Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt

[suddenstrangesurrenders]

The Mother Wound.

{Jenny Slate, from Little Weirds. Me, from Clean Out Your Inbox. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945) Franny Choi, Bad Daughter. Anne Carson, Sophocles “Elektra" translation. Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless. Jeannette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Mary Oliver, When Did It Happen?}

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[vedicinsights]

Astrology Observations PART 3

People with malefic planetary placements like Mars, Saturn, or the North Node (Rahu) in the 4th house, or with these planets aspecting the 4th house in a birth chart, often experience childhood trauma or emotional baggage related to family lineage or wounds connected to the mother. Additionally, Saturn's aspect to the Moon tends to indicate a strict mother, often critical and perfectionist, which can overwhelm the native.

LET ASTROLOGY CHOOSE YOU!

[loveelizabeths]

love elizabeth s.