Glennon Doyle

It's like putting my dirty glasses on your clear eyes because I don't want you to be like me.

I want you to be like you.

Your way is better.

I want you to be open.

I want you to let people in.

I want you to trust yourself enough that if they cross a boundary, you can stop it.

You don't have to cut them off at the pass.

You don't have to stop people before they even come into your life like I do because you have yourself so much that you know if they cross a line, you'll stop them then.

I want you to have your glasses on.

I don't want to keep putting my dirty glasses on you, but this weird thing is happening, which is that I can't stop.

I know it.

I feel it.

I know it.

But I'm in this weird in-between time where I can tell that I'm doing it, but I'm still doing it.

So what I'm asking you to do is every time your mom starts doing that, I'm pointing at somebody else.

I'm pointing at that kid.

This has nothing to do with that kid.

Only look at me.

Only think, oh, my mom's doing that thing because she hasn't learned how to not do that thing.

She's just really scared.