Today's OneWord: Mothering

They say that a mothering personality is a blessing. Doesn't explain much positivity to me, honestly. When I was young, my "mothering" parent smothered me to the point in which I was just about ready to smack her in the back of the skull with a frying pan.

I didn't actually do that, by the way. My brother did. He's in jail for aggravated assault and battery. He blames my mother's "concerned shrieking."

I never want kids. People try to convince me otherwise, but to no avail. The day I become mothering is the day the trauma goes away.