Plus: I applied for the same job as my daughter did, and she’s mad at me.
I know I made the right choices. But I can’t stop thinking of what I had and what might have been, if we had kept it together as a family.I’m definitely depressed, and think I may have PTSD. I don’t know where to get the help I need to be happy.You seem much less a “has-been” than a hardworking, impressive and successful survivor. Life has handed you a series of huge challenges, and you have fought your way through – and conquered – all of them.
You certainly embody a parent’s highest calling, which is to successfully protect and support your children. And you did it alone. If that isn’t a feminist dream, then the movement needs to make more room for heroines like you. My hope for you would be for you to reframe this narrative of your experiences to recognize what a bold and successful survivor you are. Talk therapy, medication, and nurturing supportive friendships with other women warriors would help.They told her she would hear something back within two days. The second day has passed, and she has not heard anything.
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