"I've definitely like on a bad day when I feel like my involvement is counterproductive, where I'm messing it up," she says. "It's hard for me to fully appreciate the relationship or what that bond is like." She describes feeling betrayed by the system and how her life has been turned upside down.
Writer Kelly Corrigan always wanted a family. She craved the closeness and familiarity of a strong parent-child relationship. When her daughters were little, she relished knowing everything about their lives. But as her daughters grew older, the physical and emotional distance between Kelly and her daughters grew, too. While Kelly knew to expect this transition, it still broke her heart. In this conversation, Maya and Kelly reckon with the question of what parents and children owe each other.
For more on Kelly, check out her podcast, "Kelly Corrigan Wonders" and her PBS show, "Tell Me More."
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