She can't give you what she doesn't have. What I sense in your mother through your work is a very broken, very sick and jealous person. You shined where she couldn't. It was never about you. It was about her.

And that sucks because when you have kids, it's about them. I learned that the hard way too.

You were a star, you are a star...and you did it in spite of her. Everything you've become, you've done...You...not her.

It sucks so hard when the person who is supposed to love and protect you doesn't. I have no birth mother experience, but my husband has a toxic narcissistic mommy that I have never met. I've known him 36 years.

You're brilliant, beautiful (inside and out) and strong. I'd have been proud to have a daughter like you and if she can't see it...no disrespect but fuck her.