I Loved You Enough!

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I Loved You Enough !

Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I Will Tell Them:

I loved you enough, to ASK you about where you were going, and what time you would get home

I loved you enough, to INSIST that you buy a bike that we could afford to give you, with your own money

I loved you enough, to be SILENT and let you discover that your hand-picked friend was a creep

I loved you enough, to make you return a .. Milky-Way.. with a bite out of it .. to a drugstore and confess: "I Stole This" (my note: Milky-Way is a chocolate)

I loved you enough, to STAND over you for 2 hours while you cleaned your room, a job that would have taken me 15 minutes to do

I loved you enough, to LET you see anger, disappointment, disgust and tears in my eyes

I loved you enough, to ADMIT I was wrong and asked for your forgiveness

I loved you enough, to LET you assume responsibility for your own actions at age 6, 10 or 16

But most of All, I loved you enough, to SAY no when you hated me for it. "That was the hardest part of All"