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We can also demonstrate vulnerability by making the other characters in our story whole. Maybe your mom was controlling and bossy, but what trauma made her that way? When you reveal that her parents abandoned her at a young age, her character grows. It doesn’t excuse her actions, but it gives your story more complexity. It gives you, the protagonist, nuance. It shows that if your mom can’t heal, maybe you can. It illustrates how relationships with mothers are a battleground of emotions — a site where everyone is holding a weapon infused with pain, and you can’t pinpoint how it all started in the first place. That is a story.
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Empathy for the win! Published in Gen, Human Parts, Heated, Tenderly —Feminism, Sexuality, Veganism, Anti-Racism, Parenting. She/They
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