If you’re a mother of a teenage boy you need to hear this.
Your child loves you.
I know that’s the question you keep asking yourself. Because for so many days he walks through that door with a frown in his face and just locks himself in his room.
You look up and smile at him when he comes home. You ask about his day and how his class is going. You pray and you love him and you show up again and again.
And sometimes you wonder if he doesn’t like you.
He still blames you for sending him to the wrong school. He once told you that you’re the strictest parents of all his friends. Sometimes he said he can’t wait to go to Uni so that he can finally move far away from you.
And it hurts.
But, he is lying.
The truth is that he is hurting.
Being a teenager today is very hard for him. Life is hard, friendship, schools are hard, course works, classes, meeting deadlines and studying for exams and making sure he gets good grades, and all the pressures of being a teenager and what they’re going to do after Sixth Form? It’s just too hard!
And after a particularly hard day at school, he comes home and hands all those hurts to You!
And it’s not because he doesn’t like you.
Quite the opposite.
It’s because he loves you! And he feels so loved by you that he knows you will not leave him and that you will always be there for him. He knows you got his back and that you will never leave him.
He trusts you and he needs you!
He loves you really.
You are the mother of a teenager growing up in this uncertain world.
And you’re doing a beautiful job loving him unconditionally no matter what.
Keep showing up for him.
Trust me, your son LOVES YOU dearly! 🥰❤️❤️
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