*MY INTRODUCTION TO MY MOTHER’S 1953 DIARY
**1953 – MY MOTHER’S DIARY – PART ONE
**1953 – MY MOTHER’S DIARY – PART TWO
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I also wanted to mention, in the light of my recent housecleaning that removed my mother’s writing from this site over to the Take Care of Mothers site, that I made the decision to put the 1953 diary among my personal story pages because it is mostly about my brother and I, and my sister Cindy just after she was born.
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Yes, I agree with you Linda. This is not the type of behavior that just “happens”. She had such a low threshold for violently acting out (re: brother 1965) and such an ability to make a non-event into a catastrophe. She considered the most innocent of actions to be a threat to her “perfect” mother image. She was entirely unregulated.
I hope, in 1980, you told her where to stick her story!
Did she ever write of your birth? I’m wondering if it was the succession of children, bills, responsibilities that caused her to eventually unravel and act out in violence.
(Not just the difficult labor involved in your birth).
It was so strange to hear your mother speak (write) of you with such affection. It seems like she adored you. Do you think the abuse actually occurred in these early years? (Certainly seems like it in thinking back to the story of Cindy’s homecoming and your sickness at your grandmother’s house–the cruelty she showed to you could not have come out of nowhere!) Do you think the diary entries are B.S.? She was painting the picture perfect family in her diary!