A mother’s sorrow

“Mother’s Day is always a struggle for me because people believe I am not a mother. I mean I know that Mother’s Day is really to celebrate your mother but these days it is about celebrating your children because people are busy putting up pictures of their children and wishing each other happy Mother’s Day, and I find it hard,” the woman said.

She delivered the words haltingly as if it was a struggle to put them into sentences and as if she was searching for the right things to say.

She is in her late forties and many assume that Pam (not her real name) is not a mother. It hurts her because even though she does not have a child today she did give birth to two children.