Press enter or click to view image in full size Image created by AI tools Every year, Mother’s Day fills the internet with beautiful photos, flowers, hugs, and grateful words. And for many people, that is real. But for some of us… Mother’s Day hurts. --- Not everyone has a mother who felt safe. Not everyone grew up feeling loved, protected, or wanted. Some people grew up learning how to survive instead. --- My partner is one of them. He knows what it feels like to lose the place that was supposed to feel like home. He knows what it feels like to be pushed away instead of embraced. At one point in his life, he was thrown out and left with nowhere to go. No safety. No certainty. Just pain and survival. --- And sometimes I think people don’t understand how deeply something like that stays inside a person. When the people who are supposed to protect you become the reason you feel unwanted… something inside you changes forever. --- I met him during one of the hardest times in his life. And yes… it was fast.…