You’re Not My Mom

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The phrase is usually uttered in a sharp, defensive register, dropped like a iron curtain across a dining table or a doorway: “You’re not my mom.” To the step-mother standing on the receiving end, it lands as an emotional eviction notice. To the child who spat it out, it is a desperate act of territorial […]

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