Dear Mom,

I think it’s time I say some things I have wanted to say for the past five years. I was a senior in high school, trying to get through school and move on with my life, when you turned everything upside down. You suddenly decided that you no longer loved my father, and left him for an even older man you had been sneaking around with. You lied to me when I asked you.

That was the first and only time I have ever seen my father cry. My father, who never did anything but love you and work so hard to provide for you, was tossed in a ditch for a much worse life. It’s now five years later, and you have married a different man who I cannot stand. I have never told you this. I have never told you how you became a different person to me that day. You are no longer the same person who brushed my hair, or helped me with my homework, or tried to get me to open up to you. You are now a person who I see one day a year for a couple uncomfortable hours, because I don’t know you.

I miss my mom, and every time I talk to you I am reminded that she no longer exists. I feel like my mother has died and has been replaced with this pseudo look alike. I hope that it was worth it, to lose a man and three children who loved you.

From,

your daughter, age 22