My Ideal Man’s Heartless Condition for Our Future about My Daughter Devastated Me

January 4, 2026 by youssef

So, against every maternal instinct screaming inside me, I did something I’ll regret forever — I went to my sister and asked if Lily could stay with her. Just for a little while. Just so I could hold onto the man I thought I loved.

Her reaction was immediate: ‘Are you hearing yourself?! You’re choosing a man over your daughter?!’ I tried to explain, but she wouldn’t listen. Then she told my mother. Then my whole family knew.

One by one they turned against me: ‘You’re a mother first!’ ‘How could you even think of this?’ ‘Lily should be your priority, not some man!’ I wasn’t trying to abandon her — I just wanted time. Time to fix this. Time to make him see. But they didn’t understand. Maybe they never will.

And now? Now I have no one. My family won’t speak to me. Ryan is slipping further away. I feel lost, broken, completely alone. I still love him, even though I know I shouldn’t. Even though I know he never really loved me — not the way I thought.

I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to move forward. I only know I can’t go back. Please, if you’re reading this, tell me — how do I fix this? How do I find my way back to the mother I used to be?

Source: nowiveseeneverything.club