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My Mom Left Us at 9—Now She’s Back Asking to Move In I (27M) have a younger brother (24M). When we were kids, our mom wasn’t a bad mom in the obvious ways. She didn’t yell much, she made dinner most nights, she tucked us in. But she always felt… distant. Like she was living in a life she didn’t choose. When I was 9, she sat us down on the couch and told us something I didn’t fully understand at the time. She said she “needed to find herself.” That she loved us, but she couldn’t keep living a li