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15 Things You’ll Never Understand Unless You’re Motherless In Your 20s

If you're living without a mom, you'll understand how these simple things become important thoughts that constantly take up space in your mind and heart.

Kristen Lonero
Jan 23, 2017
Curry College
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15 Things You’ll Never Understand Unless You’re Motherless In Your 20s
Kristen Lonero

1. How to properly wrap a Christmas present.

2. Having to decorate your house for every holiday- otherwise it doesn’t get decorated.

3. Wondering how much money you should tip the nail lady even when they did a bad job?

4. Can you or can you not wear white after Labor Day?

5. Your dad saying “I don’t know, Mom would know that” to every question about your first years of life.

6. That feeling when your friends say they’re going to call their “parents” and you must say just “Dad."

7. Do you put gray clothes in with the dark load or the colored load?

8. Wishing you could bring your boyfriend home to meet her, and knowing how much she’d adore him.

9. Feeling this melancholy feeling anytime the word “Mom” comes out of your mouth.

10. Trying to figure out what her advice would be during every difficult moment in your life.

11. Did she have to kiss as many frogs to find her prince?

12. Watching that scene in “Mamma Mia” and realizing that your mom won’t be there to experience your wedding day with you.

13. Running out of pictures of you two, and realizing that the pictures you have are as many as you’ll ever have.

You can never take more photos with her. That’s a difficult concept to accept.

14. The simple feeling of wishing you could curl up on the couch with her and talk about anything and everything.

15. Wondering how in the world are you ever going to be as good of a mom as she was?

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