I talked about my father being abusive to my mother - people have never heard me talk about anything like that. That brings people a little bit more personal with Missy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.
I was such a private person before I started 'The Talk.' I don't know what happened! It almost feels like I've started a second life. In my previous lifetime, I didn't talk about stuff. Now I'll discuss anything. It's crazy!
My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.
I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts' sister, and that in writing about my grandmother, I'm writing about their mother. I know that my honesty about how my view of these people has changed over the years may be painful.
My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life, and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.
I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.
There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.