Mom Called Me Damaged at My Sister’s Baby Shower

like judgment.

Just chairs in a circle, soft rugs, green plants, and women waiting to be told they were whole.

I told them bodies are not moral report cards.

Motherhood is not the rent women pay to exist.

Children, when they come, are not proof of victory.

Grief does not make you defective.

And sometimes the people who call you broken are only angry because continue reading …