It might be just me but one of the things I love very best about having had my son so young is that the bond betwwen us is feircely strong.
Personally, I felt that we went through a lot of our "growing pains" together and while he was learnign about the world and himself, so was I.
I feel like he helped me to discover who I really was in life, who I wanted to be and was the most patient and loving of teachers.
Now, at eight and 25, we are beyond close and I often feel as though our hearts and souls share a bond even greater than that of mother and child, one of kindred soul to kindred soul.
I ache to hold him still, to touch him, I let him know everyday how amazing I think he is, how proud I am of him and how I miss him each second we apart. He is my very best friend in life and we often spend hours talking of our fears, our hopes, why the sun is yellow, whatever.
He is articualte, sensitive and most of all, he accepts me always as I am and has never wanted me to be anything other than that. In the darkest of nights, he was my light and my salvation.
He taught me the meaning of unconditional love, of perserverance, of self respect and gave me hope in life for if something as beautiful this could exsist, there had to be hope for humanity yet.
Anyway, that's my veiw of teenage motherhood and what it was for me.
That was beautiful.
It sounds like there is the same age difference between you and your son as there is between me and my son (we are now 29 and 12). And I totally second everything you said. I feel exactly the same way.
Exactly so.
:wink: ~ fairy
That is soo wonderful!! =) I hope that when my daughters older, we have a relationship like that!! She is the reason I get up every morning and deal with what life throws at me. Shes my everything!
awww, what beutiful writing...
25 and 8... thats how old me and my son riley will be this summer.... and our relationship sounds almost how you wrote above...
thats beautiful!i hope me and my 2 daughters will be as close as we are now when they are older 2.i feel the same way about my kids as u do yours
Thanks girls.
that really was beautiful i can only hope i have that kind of relationship with my son...
I had my 1st when I was 19, and the next when I was 21, and I feel my kids and I grew up together too. But do you ever wonder if that one bad thing you said, or that one day you were so tired you just cried all day, or when they cried because you were always going (to school, work, another job, and another job after that) will stick with them? or if they'll remeber the week where we ate sandwiches, soup, and cereal everyday? Will my daughter remeber crying for a peanut butter sandwich at night because all we had for dinner was soup, crackers and fruit? Being a single mom does have its rewards, but I am glad my husbands back so I don't have to do that again.
I think when you're a kid, cereal everyday is probably something you think is fun. Do you not think older mothers and married mothers spend days crying in bed?
Does it have it's drawbacks, definately. Would I recomend other young women do what I did? Never.
However, most times I can look back and be very grateful to have done as well as I have. I have been fortunate and also have a goddamn wil of steel. It's all about outlook girl.
Sure, I could worry about all those times we had "breakfast suppers" or I slept in too long becuase I pulled an all nighter at the bar but, why???
I agree. But I do still feel badly when I look at my kids and wonder what they'll remember. I barely remember my dad being a part of my life, and I remember my mom losing it when he wasn't there. I'm sure some married mothers or older mothers spend all day cryin' in bed too. It's just that there's so many people waiting for us young moms to F@*ck up. I try really hard not too, and the only thing its got me is feeling like I have no time to myself and I'm not true to myself.