How a child that is expected to be the glue of the relationship between a husband and a wife is sometimes – doesn’t work that way.īlythe, who didn’t have that ‘complete’ image of a mother herself, found herself trapped in this new title of her: a mother to Violet. The devastating physical change, the mind games, the shift in priorities. Through Ashley’s writings, I could almost taste the bittersweet experience of how a birth of a child could change everything – if not instantly, slowly. So a child she pushed into the world: a daughter, Violet. She believed that in order to keep her marriage with Fox she will have to be that kind of woman too: a wife and a mother. Didn’t have enough time to heal her psychological wound before she jumped into a marriage.īlythe married her first love, Fox, a guy with perfect family background: a mom who nurtures, a father who provides. She didn’t have a good relationship with her mother nor her father. Through her we will see other women’s stories: her grandmother, Etta, her mother, Cecilia, and her daughter, Violet.ĭuring my reading, I always think Blythe as shaky. The story came up with Blythe under the spotlight. THE PUSH BY ASHLEY AUDRAIN Etta, Cecilia, Blythe, Violet The women in this family… we’re different. No matter how unworthy we feel we are.Įverything else that proves the other way should be swept under the rug. We want to know that we’ll find a way to mend, to find each other again, to feed and to caress, to provide and to nurture.ĭeep down inside, we just want to know that we are loved and capable of loving other people. That no matter how ugly we are inside, how pervert our mind can be, a mother and a child’s relationship is eternal. I think, we want to believe that we are more than just bones, meat, water, and synapses. It mustn’t be.īut have you ever asked: why did we think that way? So when we see someone, a woman and maybe a child of her, that doesn’t fit the image in our brain, we start to think: something must be wrong. It’s the heart of your belief, the pulse that keep you going. It’s the foundation, the basic, the ground from it you grow and sprout. That you could always come back to your mother. That a mother’s love for her child is a sacred thing that she must keep pure, unconditional, constant.īecause we are taught that way. The thing is, we think that motherly instinct is absolute. And we are not supposed to make bad people. We aren’t supposed to have children who die. Mothers aren’t supposed to have children who suffer.

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