Jenny goes on to recall her strained relationship with her own mother, whom she says told her that she \u201cdidn\u2019t know how to be a mom anymore\u201d when she was just 12. Noting that she\u2019d fly between Phoenix and San Diego as \u201can unaccompanied minor\u201d every month or two to visit her, Jenny says, \u201cI never understood how she could tolerate it. How she could sleep through the night knowing I was in another state, in another house, with another woman who wasn\u2019t her. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever fully healed that wound. And I don\u2019t know that I ever will.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I became a mom, I wasn\u2019t prepared for how thoroughly a love like this would break me. How it would turn me inside out and make knots of my viscera,\u201d she says, describing motherhood as \u201cvulnerability in a form so all-encompassing that it borders on masochism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenny goes on to recall her strained relationship with her own mother, whom she says told her that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,780,6860],"class_list":["post-725230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-timely","tag-womens-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}