My mum’s pained face comes out for trivial reasons now that I’m 31 – if I eat a doughnut, say, or wear a wrinkled shirt
There are few things as painful to a child as a parent’s disapproval. When my friends’ softly spoken dads boomed, they knew a line had been crossed. I never knew my father, but my mum’s raised voice hardly bothered me. Instead, it was her silence – her pained face and furrowed brow, her deep sigh and the curl of her lips in a frown. I felt that in my chest. This week I did it again: I disappointed my mother.
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