Mother’s Day: 5 stories from Todateen readers about maternal love

This Sunday (12th) we celebrate a date which, among commercial pretexts, celebrates strong women, be they mothers, aunts, grandmothers or sisters. In this Mother’s Day, even if you choose not to celebrate, we take this opportunity to bring you a read full of love. We spoke to some readers from Todateen and shared their insights into the stories of women who have made a difference in their lives.

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Bia and Wafa

My mother is Lebanese, born in the city of Aley, where she lived until the age of 6. She has many wonderful stories about her hometown, I love to sit and listen to them all… But with the war in Lebanon reaching its peak, her family came to Brazil, where my grandfather already lived. My mother says that on the way to the airport, bombs fell near the car, so a lot of things were left behind to catch the plane. Here in Brazil, my grandparents worked hard to open a snack bar and support my mother, aunts and uncle.

At 15 my mother had to deal with grief, my grandfather was murdered outside the canteen. At that time, my grandmother and my eldest aunt had to fight hard to provide a comfortable life for the family – and they succeeded. One of my aunts has a degree in Speech Therapy, another in Administration and my mother is a pharmacist.

After graduation my mother met my father, they got married, they moved in together… and I was born! When they bought the house we live in today, it still had no floor, almost nothing, but I have only wonderful memories of my childhood. Around the age of 6 my mother discovered breast cancer, I remember her staying late in hospital undergoing radiotherapy. She recovered and she didn’t need chemotherapy!

A year later she got pregnant, but lost the baby due to the whole cancer thing. A few years later, when I was 12, she got pregnant again. Everyone was very worried, she was already 45 years old, but my brother came into the world – and he was long awaited <3.

When she was 3 years old, my mother began feeling ill without explanation, spending days in the hospital, unable to eat properly. I remember staying home with my brother so my dad could go to the hospital. They spent nights crying in fear until they discovered it was Crohn’s disease. [doença intestinal inflamatória e crônica que afeta o revestimento do trato digestivo].

Even today he takes medication and suffers the consequences of his illness, but he is with us – and that’s what matters. Mom, I love you, you are my greatest inspiration!

Anna Maria

When I was born, my mother was very young, younger than I am today, and she spent a lot of time away from home during my childhood. I have no contact with my father and I have lived with my grandmother since I was six months old. At that time she was about 50 years old, she had already raised three daughters and she had nevertheless decided to dedicate her life to taking care of me. I think I am who I am today only thanks to my grandmother.

When I was a child, every night before going to bed my grandmother made up a story and told it to me, she always prepared food for me, a snack at school, went to all the school shows, played dominoes with me, made cupcakes… My grandmother is the person who loves me most in the world – and I love her very much too.

He does everything for me! For example, I’m a fan of Taylor Swift, and so is she, this week we were watching her show on YouTube (laughs). Listen to the albums with me, listen to my outbursts about the argument I had with a friend, about my disappointments in love… My grandmother is my best friend, she is an understanding, funny and wonderful person. I like to think I’m a good person, and it’s because my grandmother loved me very much, she never let me lack affection.

Giovanna and Giane

My mother was the eldest of three siblings and the two youngest have always had very fragile health. So my grandmother’s attention had to focus on them. Because her father was an alcoholic, she ended up being raised by her grandparents, but without much attention. When she was 21 years old, during her last year of foreign trade school, she became pregnant and was left alone, because she did not receive support at home and the boyfriend did not want to be part of my sister’s life.

They both went through many difficulties… These days my sister was at home and she said that in her school record it appears that she attended more than twenty schools in ten years, because they had to move constantly, because the rent has increased. They ended up living in a two-bedroom house and still had no money.

My mother had a lot of difficulty trusting people, but when my sister was 10 years old she opened up to a new life partner, who treated her daughter very well. Her until she got pregnant and she found herself alone once again. Besides the fact that she didn’t want to be part of my upbringing, my mother found out that she was married. To this day I don’t know if her family knows about me.

My mother worked a lot so that we wouldn’t go hungry, I remember that there were nights when we depended on the neighbor, she was a colleague of my mother who, every time there was food left over from dinner, she helped us, so we wouldn’t sleep on an empty stomach. During my childhood I barely saw my mother, she worked a lot.

Things changed when, even without completing university, he found work in foreign trade. With her assignments our life was transformed and even today she is one of the most dedicated people at the company, having been there for ten years.

We were never one to spend too much, but there was one time it surprised me, we went to Disney, my sister was 25, she was 40, we had a lot of fun, it was my 15th birthday present. When we returned there was a surprise party!

I think I will never have enough to talk about my mother, about how much I respect her, because she did not receive affection and did everything to pass it on to us. I’m not going to sit here and say our relationship is perfect, because we argue a lot: two Aries, right? We are not the ones who say I love you, hug you, but we always satisfy ourselves in our own way, we buy flowers, we treat each other.

Duda and Nadir

I am the youngest daughter of three brothers, I have two older sisters and when I was about two years old my older brother died. He had a car accident, I think it was New Year’s Day, so much so that my mother doesn’t like that date very much.

In recent days we were talking about this, about the past, she said that thank God she had me there to take care of her, because my sisters are older. I’m the youngest of the scrapers, right? My sisters no longer live with me, they are already married and have children, even though we live close to each other. So she says that taking care of me gave her a lot of strength, to not drop the ball, to want to continue living. She says that she couldn’t get angry because she had a daughter to take care of. And that had a big impact on our friendship, because my mother and I… we’re very close. I tell her everything, we have an excellent mother-daughter relationship, we rarely argue. If we argue it’s about films, because she forgets all the films she’s seen. I say, “No, Mom, you’ve seen these movies before.” Then it’s just a fight (laughs).

She is 65 years old, so I was afraid that she wouldn’t become my friend because she was older, I was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to keep up with me, that she wouldn’t have as much drive. And this, wow, proved the opposite, we have already traveled together and she is fine with everything, she has more energy than me!

My mother does everything to get what she wants, she has a degree in literature and set up a buffet without knowing engineering, she is an entrepreneur who has never taken a management course. I owe everything to her, she’s my best friend. If today I am the first person in my family to leave high school and finish university so early, it is thanks to her.

Even though we don’t celebrate Mother’s Day because of my beliefs, I make it a point to give her gifts whenever I can.

Bruna and Aline

My mother’s pregnancy was difficult, I was supposed to be born in the eighth month, because she had pneumonia, if I’m not mistaken. When she gave birth she had a cardiac arrest and I was in complicated condition. I was taken to the ICU and my mother to the room. There she was, the phone rang and the nurses said, thinking she was a companion, that I was hospitalized.

My mother says it was like a scene from a movie, she walked out of the room without warning, with stitches and everything, sat in a wheelchair and ended up in the elevator – the nurses started screaming “hold me mommy !” when the door was closing. She managed to convince the doctor to let me touch him in the incubator. I know that when she touched me and she talked to me, my condition began to normalize. She says I was also a little purple and when she came I was better. So, this connection with her is very strong to this day, you know?

We like to go to the beach at night and look at the stars, and every time we are there, it reminds me how special life is, how we should enjoy the moments.

Source: Terra

Ben

Ben Stock is a lifestyle journalist and author at Gossipify. He writes about topics such as health, wellness, travel, food and home decor. He provides practical advice and inspiration to improve well-being, keeps readers up to date with latest lifestyle news and trends, known for his engaging writing style, in-depth analysis and unique perspectives.