Mother Always Knows Best

Essay on Mother Always Knows Best

My wife and I have been married for five years as of November 8 2001. Last summer she and I split up. Actually, she left me. My mother always told me that she knows best, saying that I should listen to her because she has been through situations already. As most people do not listen to their mothers, I did not always listen to my mother when she tried to give me advice. I thought I knew better, and this time was no exception. After the events of last summer, I now believe her, and listen to her when she tells me that mother always knows best.

The best advice my mother ever gave me all started when one day I called my wife at work to say hello. She told me that she was moving out because she was tired of being with me. Therefore, I left work as I always did whenever she was upset and threatened to leave. When I arrived at her place of employment, she had not changed her mind at all. Even begging and pleading with her did not help; she had her mind made up and she was sticking with it. To me, it seemed as if my life was ending, and she did not even care. Suddenly, every moment that we had shared was flashing in my mind, and our two children were going to have to go through what I went through twenty years earlier. Finally, I gave up the begging and went home to sit and reflect on the afternoon's events. At four-thirty p.m. I had to leave and pick the kids from daycare. When I picked up our children, I was even more depressed than I was before; it felt as if my heart was being ripped out, and there was nothing I could do about it.

I tried to spend as much quality time with the kids as I could without letting on that something was wrong. Unfortunately, my oldest son, who was four at the time, could see right through me. He kept asking me what was wrong, and I did not know what to tell him except that I was very sad, and he seemed to understand that explanation. After my wife got off work, she came to pick up the children and I was still holding on to a little strand of hope that she would change her mind. She came in, grabbed a few things, put the kids in her