I applaud Jo-Ellen for speaking her truth
I just watched last night’s RHORI episode and this show has always been such a light-hearted show for me (how ironic considering the amount of insanity this show has produced in one season, lol). Yet, last night’s episode hit me square in the jaw and has me here crying. Jo-Ellen speaking to her mom about the ways that her parenting hurt her hit way too close to home for me. My mother was never really loved the way she needed to be loved by her own mom (or my now deceased father). And in turn, she took it out on me and my sisters. Physical and psychological abuse followed me from as young as I could remember until I left the house. Jo-Ellen is so brave for sticking up to her mom and really telling her the truth about what pain her mom caused her. I’m glad the mom was able to sit there and not necessarily change the subject as this has been my experience with my own mother. When Jo-Ellen said that she wished her mom placed her and her sister in the “most important people” category the way Jo-Ellen has her children, I just absolutely lost it. I have one child, and he is my entire world (and my moon, and my sun, and my stars and everything in between). I pour the love I wish I had from my mom into him and I just absolutely know Jo-Ellen probably cries over this in private and now is sharing it with the world. So thanks, Jo-Ellen, from one hurt daughter to another.