I hated my mother.
I had hated her for as long as I could remember.
She was fussy, always nagging, always giving orders.
Nothing I did was ever good enough.
“Why can’t you do better than this?”
“Other people are so much better than you.”
“Don’t disappoint me.”
Those words. I heard them every single day.
Until one day… I couldn’t take it anymore.
We had a terrible fight.
“Have you ever loved me at all!” I screamed.
She went silent for a moment, then answered quietly.
“It’s because I love you… that I’m this way.”
I laughed bitterly.
“This is love? I hate you so much.”
She said nothing. Just stood there, watching me in silence.
That look in her eyes… I still remember it clearly.
That night I packed my things and ran away from home immediately.
I swore to myself
I would never come back.