THE COMFORTING CUDDLE
THE COMFORTING CUDDLE People don’t realize how fine a line it is. One minute my Son was only TECHNICALLY an adult; but he was still my baby. The next, well, the next he was something more. It started at the end of a very rough night for him. Blame work or school or love, but whatever the cause, he needed comfort; and I was so happy that he came to me! I appreciated that so much! You try to be supportive, to tell them that they can always come to you when something is wrong, and to give all the loving reassurances that help them know that you mean it, but once they become teenagers… you never know how any of that is going to play out. Will they remember those lessons, or will they rebel against you to the point of discarding them? So, that night, I loved and appreciated it so much that, when he was upset, he came to me. Even more than that, that he felt so close and so comfortable with me, that he fell asleep being held by...