Ashley Salazar

I didn't really know.

Until my mom brought it to me.

Yeah, I have.

Like, growing up, because we're from, like, a small, like, South Texas town, like, right above, like, Mexico.

Like, there's a beach there and everything.

And that's where I grew up.

So I was super close to my uncle and my aunt, my cousin.

We used to, like, hang out and play a lot.

And my grandparents were down there.

So we'd see each other like all the time.

So yeah, like I remember growing up, I used to wish like no offense to my mom or anything.

But I used to wish like, wow, like I wish they were my parents because it just seemed like such a stable household, you know, two parents, two parents and you know, the standard.

Yeah.

But yeah, we were always close.

And thank you for acknowledging that because I think as I've gotten older, I've started to realize that it is like so difficult in its own way.

And y'all are so well versed, like kinship, I guess is the word.

Like I never really used that term, but yeah, definitely.

It, it's tough.

So like at the beginning, I think it was hard because,

Well, so I think because we were always so close, we never went through talking about boundaries or counseling, like what this would look like in the future and setting, yeah, like setting boundaries and like rules and like, you know, parameters around everything.