Being a parent is unlike anything else. So many folks attest to the fact that you can’t understand what it’s like to be responsible for a tiny human life until you are, making it difficult to always understand our own parents’ choices. This seemed to be true for one Reddit user who shared that they felt guilt over the loss of their Mom. For years, they were told that their Mom had died peacefully in her sleep just months after giving birth.
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In reality, though, cancer was the cause of her passing, and being pregnant didn’t help. Even though this Reddit user was only a newborn, they expressed feeling guilty for playing a part in taking her life, especially since everyone talks about how she was such a wonderful person. When another Mom saw this post, she swooped in to lovingly reassure them that they couldn’t be more wrong. You can read their conversation in the post below.
What powerful, life-changing words for this Mom to share with a total stranger online. We don’t know if they ever responded but we imagine, and hope, that this helped give them a new perspective.
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