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I'll bite my tongue. As long as she's happy, then I'm happy for her. I'm not going to say that I've never seen my mom cry, or that she's the strongest person I know, because I cannot count the times that she's leaned on me for support. I've been her shoulder to cry on. It's always been me and my mom, but it's always been more of a friendship than a mother-daughter relationship. She's relied on me countless times, and I've depended on her even more. If this man, SOMEHOW, makes her happy, then who am I to ruin that for her? I know she'd keep quiet if I was in love with a junkie. She's always told me, "Hopefully, things will always go well for you. Hopefully, that guy will always make you happy, and if he doesn't, then you'll pick yourself up again, but I'll always be here when your legs aren't quite strong enough." And I think that's how it should be, always. People need to have a little more faith.

"You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie."

ugh.

Domestic abuse, rape, sexuality, and female empowerment, these are all things that a woman should have a say in!!! Not all women realize what they're worth, what we stand for, and how important we are in this world, and that my friends, is what I'm here for.

And I always can find you again.♥

with a little effort, the things that seem a bit, well..hopeless, can return to being the most precious thing in your life.♥

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it is definitely...worth another shot.♥

So..I was at my mother's boyfriend's sister's get together, and I was expressing my views on Marijuana, Zombies, and the end of the world with my future cousins. They were fairly open to my opinions, but soon got a little confused about what I was talking about, and eventually I just decided to go back inside. When I go back inside, I hear my future step dad's mother stating to my mom that her son is a good man. He's never been a criminal, and he's never been a pothead, and that's basically why he's a decent person. While she's saying this, she is smoking a pack of cigarettes. What the fuck? Are you kidding me? I won't go into what I have to say about weed, because that's a totally different story, but if that's what makes a good person, then I guess my mother has completely lied to me all these years. If she thinks that this piece of crap "man" she's somehow fallen for is a good person, then she is a complete and total hypocrite. She's taught me values and morals and to be a completely independent and opinionated person, but if she's just standing by and letting this alcoholic, BUT NEVER A POTHEAD, man walk all over her, treat her like she is nothing, then I seriously have lost all faith in believing anything at all. Seriously. He might not smoke marijuana, but he does drink 24 ounce bud light cans one after the other. What's worse? Violence or mellowness? People are DUMB.