((((((((((inbloom))))))))))))

I SO get it. I used to tell T, "my love for you is TOO BIG". It hurts sometimes.

I have boys, and I wonder sometimes what it would be like to raise a daughter, and see her get the love I didn't get. It seems like there could be something so healing about it...and so painful at the same time (like so much of our healing, I guess). Because we homeschool, we have other families that we are very close to and spend a lot of time with (vacations, etc), and I do feel like I have helped raise some of the girls. Giving them the love I didn't get is a powerful feeling.

I'm sorry it hurts so much tonight. Be extra gentle with you. T's love may not feel like "enough", but maybe, maybe, if you can let in the love of H and your daughter, and the caring of everyone here, it can fill up a little bit of that empty space.