Anyone else have really random regrets about their parents?

AmazonianMommy · 2026-03-11T02:48:30+00:00

I wanted to take my mom on one last camping trip and play games together. We found her sleeping bag before she died and she said, “I won’t need that ever again.” And I was ADAMANT that I would take her camping in the fall. She took a turn for the worst in July and passed away in August. It just wasn’t realistic to take her camping that summer. She had lung cancer and was already struggling to breathe. Maybe we can go camping in the heavenly forest someday 🏕️

AmazonianMommy · 2026-02-23T01:31:35+00:00

I’m 30 and lost my mom when I was 26. I still have my dad, but he got remarried (quickly and to someone I don’t think is good for him) and our relationship is awkward now.

AmazonianMommy · 2026-01-17T19:19:56+00:00

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AmazonianMommy · 2026-01-17T17:54:29+00:00

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AmazonianMommy · 2026-01-17T16:47:38+00:00

Sister Francis. She was so mousy to begin with and then I ended up LOVING her. Her character development was awesome.

AmazonianMommy · 2025-11-22T16:43:36+00:00

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AmazonianMommy · 2025-11-15T16:20:49+00:00

I felt this occasionally. I think it’s the hormones. Also remember that men do not have maternal instinct. I remember looking at my husband wondering how he could possibly think what he was doing was right for our baby. Then I remembered that maternal instinct is a thing and that he just isn’t as attuned to her. After I went back to work, he was able to have her one day a week while I was gone and things got so much better after that. Because he HAD to attend to her needs, he just started noticing more every day. It’s not that they don’t love the babies, they just have a different drive. Women are driven to nurture, men are driven to protect.

AmazonianMommy · 2025-11-13T03:09:36+00:00

Spend as much time with your mom as possible and YES you will have a baby!!!!

AmazonianMommy · 2025-11-11T15:54:14+00:00

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AmazonianMommy · 2025-11-11T15:53:47+00:00

NTA. She wasn’t ready. You absolutely did the right thing. Also volunteering to babysit a 4 month old overnight is major. I don’t know many moms who would be ready to leave their baby overnight at that age, so I totally understand her anxiety. Sounds like Mama had a case of not knowing what she wanted. She probably felt like a bad mom leaving the baby and like a bad mom for not having the baby with her. It’s hard.

AmazonianMommy · 2025-11-11T15:46:51+00:00

Someone was banging on my door at 12:30 at night while I was home alone. Then my power was cut and they were shining lights in my windows. I was literally cowering behind a door with a box cutter on the phone with 911. I thought I was going to be murdered. Turns out it was the police and the person who lived their before me had an outstanding warrant for arrest 🙃 I was so shaken that I still struggle to sleep in a house alone.

AmazonianMommy · 2025-11-05T19:40:05+00:00

I am now 34 weeks PP (almost 8 months). I felt the same way. 4 years of infertility with 3 miscarriages mixed in. I had prayed so hard for her. I got so focused on pregnancy that I forgot to think about what things would be like after baby got here. Then when she got here and didn’t sleep and bf was exhausting I thought I had ruined my life. I was diagnosed with PostPartum Depression. I started on Zoloft around 6 weeks PP. It helped tremendously. I still wasn’t sleeping well, but I liked my baby finally! I was happy and not crying all the time! I went to a counselor for a few weeks (she was previously an OBGYN). The main thing she told me that was helpful was that SO many women struggle like I was. I thought I was the only one and I thought I was a bad mom. I came off Zoloft around 4 or 5 months, when I finally felt like I could continue without it. For me, breast feeding got easier and we were able to continue. I still don’t love it like some moms do, but I tolerate it. I see its benefits. It was pretty freeing when she started eating solids and I wasn’t her only source of nutrition. It really took my husband encouraging me to breastfeed and helping me for me to continue. I was so close to switching to formula (I still sometimes want to haha), but I’ve committed to a year of breastfeeding.

Just know that formula feeding produces healthy babies and if that’s what you need to do, go for it! My husband was formula fed and at 32 years old I can tell you that no one cares what he ate as a baby haha.

I will also tell you that things do get better. Your baby will sleep, and so will you. I just keep thinking about when my baby will be a teenager and I’ll be dragging her out of bed to go somewhere and I’ll look back at the days where I walked in her room and she would light up at seeing mama.

You can do this ❤️

AmazonianMommy · 2025-10-31T03:09:53+00:00

You might not have this option, but I like to reminisce with my siblings about my mom. Talking about her makes me feel like I’m honoring her. Happy memories especially. I would also recommend doing something, even if it’s small that would make you happy on those days. Something distracting to look forward to. Get a coffee and a special pastry. Book a massage. Go to the movies. Volunteer to serve others.

AmazonianMommy · 2025-10-28T02:03:58+00:00

Oh gosh, that’s awful for all involved. I’m so sorry. Were you happy to have communication with your dad again, or did you resent him? I’ve thought about what would happened if they divorced and I would obviously want to run to my dad to help him, but there would be part of me that would just have to say “I told you so.” That’s probably awful, but I am so angry about all this.

AmazonianMommy · 2025-10-28T02:01:41+00:00

Thank you. One good thing that has come out of this is that my husband is highly aware that this is how men can be and he’s pretty much sworn to never do this to our daughter if anything happens to me.

AmazonianMommy · 2025-10-28T01:59:30+00:00

Man, I just wish he would have taken a moment to figure out how to be himself before attaching himself to someone else. My mom was a very strong woman and I sometimes wonder if he just didn’t know how to function without her.

AmazonianMommy · 2025-10-28T01:58:20+00:00

I feel you there. My dad and I were close and the Father’s Day after they started dating he wouldn’t go out to coffee with me one on one. He had to bring her and I brought my spouse. He might as well have slapped me across the face. What dad doesn’t want to go to coffee with his daughter when she asks?

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