My Mother Abandoned Me

by Darcy Reis
(Tampa, Florida, United States)

I have abandonment issues.
I know because my mother left me alone when I was seven years old and I ended up living with a man who raped me as a child on a regular basis.

My mother never showed me affection growing up.
Now that I am a woman she is still hostile and unloving to me.
She also constantly lies.

I wish I had another mom loving ,tender truthful, not someone who is constantly judging and embarrassing me.

For many years I hated her because she wasn’t responsible enough to raise me.
She treated me like an old raggedy rug.

She never made up to me with tender care.
She never treated me like the daughter who needs love.