If my mom ever said “I don’t want you” I’d be crushed.

I grew up without a father, but he would show up occasionally (like once a year) to take my younger brothers and older sisters out to eat, I remember being 11 years old and so excited for my birthday and my mom prepared an awesome day for just me and my siblings, but at the last minute my dad showed up. This made me so excited, he must really care if he showed up to my birthday. Unfortunately he didn’t show up to see me, he showed up to take my siblings to Olive Garden. Needless to say, my day was ruined. My mom sang me happy birthday alone and I went to my room and cried for the rest of the night.

It always brings me back to that Fresh Prince episode when Will says “how come he don’t want me?”. As a kid it kills that you never did anything wrong, you did good in school, you played sports even though you didn’t want to and still the person who brought you into the world doesn’t want anything to do with you. To be honest I think I would constantly ask myself “how come he don’t want me?”.

If my mom ever told me that she didn’t want me I would be destroyed.