Mother & Son Archives - How I Killed My Mother

Would My Mother Have Chosen Me If She Knew I Was Gay?

by adminJD | Sep 23, 2026 | Family & Relationships, LGBTQ+ Life & Identity, Mother & Son

My mother once wanted me to be straight. Years later, I asked myself a much more frightening question: If she’d known I would be gay before I was born, would she have chosen me at all? Would My Mother Have Chosen Me If She Knew I Was Gay? In 1997, I was living alone...

Why Ordinary Things Become Precious After Someone Dies

by adminJD | Sep 23, 2026 | Grief, Memory, Mother & Son

When I was six years old, I made my mother a construction-paper Mother’s Day card. Decades later, after she died, I found it. Apparently neither of us knew what I was really giving her. Mother’s Day Card Why Ordinary Things Become Precious After Someone Dies My...

When Everyone Expects You to Be the Strong One in Grief

by adminJD | Sep 23, 2026 | Grief, Mother & Son, Personal Growth

I had spent years learning how to command a room. Then my mother died, and suddenly I wanted to disappear into one. When Everyone Expects You to Be the Strong One in Grief By the time my mother died, I knew how to perform. Not perform grief. Perform, period. I had...

Would My Mother Have Chosen Me If She Knew I Was Gay?

Why Ordinary Things Become Precious After Someone Dies

When Everyone Expects You to Be the Strong One in Grief

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