5/21/2023 0 Comments Untamed glennonThis is why Jung suggested: There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.” If we keep passing down the legacy of martyrdom to our daughters, with whom does it end? Which woman ever gets to live? And when does the death sentence begin? At the wedding altar? In the delivery room? Whose delivery room-our children’s or our own? When we call martyrdom love we teach our children that when love begins, life ends. They will believe they have permission to live only as fully as their mothers allowed themselves to live. They will feel obligated to love as well as their mothers loved, after all. Because if we show them that being a martyr is the highest form of love, that is what they will become. What a terrible burden for our daughters to bear-to know that if they choose to become mothers, this will be their fate, too. What a terrible burden for children to bear-to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. “Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time.
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