A netizen shared a story about how he brought his boyfriend to visit his dying mother, but she apparently disapproved of him and his last words to his mother before she died was “I wish you were not my mother.”
Here is his story
“My mum was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer about a year ago, and in the weeks leading up to her death, she always expressed her interest in meeting my girlfriend.
She knew that I was attached but didn’t know that I was attached with a guy, she doesn’t know that I am actually into guys but since she was already on her deathbed, I thought it’s time to come clean to her.
I brought my boyfriend to see her, and her eyes lit up when she saw me, and she seemed to have found the strength to smile somehow.
She asked me who the guy beside me was, and I told her, “mummy, i want to introduce my boyfriend to you, this is Ayden.”
Her smile then slowly faded away as she became very visibly upset, and even as she struggled to breathe, she still managed to tell me “i asked you to bring home a girlfriend and you bring home a guy.”
At this point Ayden felt uncomfortable and left the room, as I tried to explain to my mother about my secret for all these years.
She told me that this is unacceptable and that she wouldn’t accept him, and in a fit of anger, I told her “I really wish you were not my mum” before storming off.
I went over to my boyfriend’s home to spend the rest of the day, trying to explain the situation, when I got a phone call from my auntie that my mother had passed away.
And now a whole wave of different emotions hit me – anger, sadness, desperation, helplessness.
I was still angry at my mother but it subsided so much after she passed, and it was taken over by regret and overwhelming sadness.
I really wish I hadn’t said that to her before she died, and now I can’t do anything to take it back.”
Editor’s note: I’m sure your mother knows that you didn’t really mean it and still loved you right till the end.