Eleanor Doyle

Every day I look at them and I go, God Almighty, they inspire me so much for everything that they have been through.

you know, and everything that they have seen and everything that they've lost, you know, everything that they've lost, like, and to look at them now, like, it's just, it's been worth, it's been, like, it was horrendous, but it was just worth, it was worth it, like, you know.

I'd say they're... Yeah, they would be in fairness.

They would.

And, you know, it's always kind of funny, I suppose.

And I spoke to someone else about being the mom of children when your partner has been denied it.

And it's slightly different because that protectiveness that I feel for them and that they feel for me, it's deep.

You know, it's really, really deep.

Yeah.

And, like, you know, for people out there thinking, God, like, I'll never manage myself, like, Jesus, I look back now and I go, if I stayed in that, like, if I had stayed in that, like, it would have killed us, you know, and just to see the life that we have now and, like, you know, my eldest is in college, like, I remember saying to my sister, like,

what am I going to do?

We'll let them do the confirmation first now.

We won't be worrying about, you know, about that.

But like, and, you know, even when they graduate or they do, you know, those little milestones along.

I'd be like, mom, don't.

With the tears now.

But it's deep seated for me because it's validation to myself that like, you know what?

You fucking did it.

And you did the right thing.

Yeah.