Single Mother Sorry

Tia Deas
Tia Deas
Aug 31, 2018 · 2 min read

I hope he can understand that I didn’t enter into motherhood knowing what I lacked stacked behind books and pages of lessons others mothers and grandmothers of the world tried to teach young girls that decided to move forward with pregnancy regardless of the outcome of a father staying or leaving but having to raise a man. Let me start by saying sorry.

I hope he can understand that I didn’t intend on giving him anything less than what he deserved in care, love, and protection but I lacked affection because the inner parts of me were still attempting to learn to love myself without affirmation…

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Tia Deas

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Tia Deas

I’m 27 with 27 tattoos. Mother. Poet. Author of Figurative Keys Series. I write to get pieces of my heart back blue from black. Www.figurativekeys.com

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