re: Raising a daughter is emotional

You haven’t seen nothin yet. Wait until the time when they forget everything you ever did for them. The fact that you dedicated every second of every hour to their well being will soon be forgotten. You gave up your hobbies, and things you enjoyed and spending even a little money on yourself so you could provide for them and make sure their needs were met. But that’s of no consequence. Will they remember that you never missed a school performance, a play, a game? Or how you worried every time they left the house? Or the Barbie jeeps and dollhouses that you stayed up until 3 am on Christmas Eve assembling? Or that you made sure they had a better childhood than you did because you never wanted them to go through what you did? Will they remember how you stayed awake nights worrying about finances and how you were going to be able to make things work? And how it took years off your life? And how you sacrificed everything? They won’t. They won’t remember any of it. Until they have kids of their own.