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As a Single Mother, I am Learning to Let Go

Posted by singlemom

March 25, 2009 |

Letting go is not always easy, especially when it is our children that we are supposed to let go of. Recent events have shown me that, sometimes, things go wrong in our letting go plans.

There was an incident where a young adult girl told her mother that she was not happy in the situation that she is in. That she couldn’t take it any more, and that she was moving out of the apartment that she was sharing with her fiance and friends. She just wasn’t happy.

Said young girl went home for a visit just before moving, and then posted some stuff on her MySpace blog when she decided not to move after all. The things she posted weren’t real nicely put.

At any rate, the girl upset people in her family very much, because they now knew that she wasn’t very happy even though she decided to stay in the relationship. She did give the fiance back his ring, and downgraded to boyfriend and girlfriend, but things were said by both the young girl and her boyfriend that will not be easily forgotten by her family, especially now that she has voiced not being happy.

The young girl did not talk to her family for weeks. It was a sad thing. It truly was.

She is now talking to her family again but, as I mentioned above, things are not easily forgotten.

The mother of the young girl knows that she has to let go of the girl more, but it is hard for her knowing that her daughter is not very happy at this time. She is working on worrying about her own life and letting her daughter worry about herself. That is the best that she can do.

What experiences are you having with your young adult children? Please share them with us.

Shannon


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