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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Mama's Heartbreak: A Love Story


My son turned 11 years old at the end of January.   He’s the biggest social butterfly of the family.  He’s already into the whole girl thing.  He’s been a little Casanova since pre-school when he was the only boy invited to a little girl’s birthday party.  At the party, all the mommas kept coming up to me and telling me how much their little beauties loved my son.  Back off girlies, he’s four and still  MINE!


When he was in third grade he decided he needed to wear cologne to school to impress a little girl.  That lasted about a week and a half.  The next year he spent about two weeks with his ear glued to the telephone with yet another little vixen trying to take my little boy away from me.




Well, now it seems I may have already lost my baby boy.  Not only does he talk about this newest Scarlet all the time, she’s sending him text messages with hearts all over the place.  They have hour long conversations on the phone.  And, to top it off, my darling little boy asked if he could buy HER a necklace for Valentine’s Day. 

Ambulances were called, a defibrillator was employed, psychiatrists prescribed medications and I am now undergoing intense psychotherapy.  I am told this therapy could last several years and may have to involve experimental techniques not yet FDA approved.


So that is where I put my foot down.  Maybe some people will scoff at me, but 11 is way too young to be buying jewelry for some little trollop that is probably just going to break his heart. We compromised on letting him get her a small heart shaped box of chocolates and a cheap ass rose, which I’m rethinking, but it’s too late for that.  I think my aforementioned medication clouded my judgment on that.


I spent Valentine’s Day watching the clock at work.  Both wishing I could be there to watch my son give Valentine gifts to a girl for the first time and glad I wasn't there to see it.  The hours dragged by as I tried not to imagine how it all went for him.  My impatience to hear him tell me about is day was almost unbearable. 

The clock did finally register home time and when I got home the first thing I asked my boy was what happened with his girl.  He says at first she blushed.  Then she thanked him.  Then he told me she said she wanted to kiss him.

My heart is now in a million pieces and there is a nice white jacket waiting for me as well as some men to take me to a nice soft room.

6 comments:

  1. There's no going back now... Get used to it.

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  2. Oh dear. Oh dear. I'm not ready for ANY of this.

    Have you recovered yet?

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    1. I think I have recovered about as much as a mom can. He is at least still telling us about parts of his conversations with her.

      I don't think a momma is ever ready for this stuff.

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  3. Oh I so know how you feel ! My eldest son was just the same with the girls and it was hard!
    But not as hard as it was when my youngest told me he had proposed to his girlfriend. I think I went a little crazy..it's not as if I haven't known her for a few years and that we all knew it was bound to happen, but when it did poof ! of went mama like a crazy woman..I actually kind of dread the wedding, but I may have myself psyched up by then ;/

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    1. My biggest fear is he will marry someone I don't like. I got lucky and have a great relationship with my inlaws but I am aware of how rare that is, too.

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