"She is my estranged mother. I am her estranged daughter. It means that the familiar—family—has become alien," she writes.
It was the week before Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered us to shelter in safety; the threat of COVID-19 contagion was looming large on the horizon. Coming soon, but not quite here.
I took a deep breath to calm myself. My heart was racing as if I’d dodged a bullet; in a way, I had . Before I’d had time to settle back into my work at the kitchen table, the landline started ringing in the back bedroom. When the answering machine picked up, I heard my maternal uncle’s voice recording a message. He was calling on what I assumed was my mother’s behalf.
"Keeping my emotional distance, I’m realizing, doesn’t have to mean shutting off my emotions," the author writes. Still, some might feel the temptation to reconcile with their estranged loved one at a time like this. When I got my mother’s recent call, my mind ran through the possibilities of what she might want from me. If it wasn’t a visit from her grandchildren, it could only be something to do with the health of my rapidly declining paternal uncle, for whom she now acts as a legal guardian.
Living with the daily stress of quarantine has made me realize that I am responsible for my own happiness, even if I’ve experienced unhappiness at others’ hands. Yes, I could beat myself up about this failing—and failed—relationship with my mother . Or I could find a way to accept it as the profound loss that it is for both of us: mother and daughter.
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