For I, too, was once my father's son, tenderly loved as my mother's only child. Proverbs 4:3 (NLT2) I was the fifth child of six in my family. Obviously, I was not my parents' only child. Those who have no siblings enjoy the love of their parents with no competition from anyone. But when you are one of two, or three, or in my case six, sometimes you feel like you're lost in the shuffle, there isn't enough love for everyone to go around.
But the interesting thing is that a mother makes you feel loved as if you were their only child. I have friends and relatives who had even larger families, but their mothers also loved them each as they were no others to love.
What is it about mothers that makes us feel so close to them? Is it the fact we grew and lived within them for months? Some of us were squatters for a full nine months! Maybe living so physically close to their hearts before birth is what keeps us emotionally close forever.
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