do them with or for (bosses, friends, coaches, teammates, significant others). So as moms, when we look at our people all together at a table or sprawled on couches or posing in front of some scenic backdrop for an obligatory family photo, we think we never know when or if we’ll see them just this way again. We see days past and envision them spilling over into the present and future. We see the relational house that love and time built and imagine adding onto it. So, when something interrupts this scene or chips away at it, we freak out a little (or a lot). We do this for the same baseline reason we do everything as moms: WE LOVE OUR PEOPLE.
We love spending time with them. We love watching them interact with each other. We love hearing them laugh together. We love seeing whom they’ve become...and whom they’re becoming. And so, dear spouses and teenagers and adult children of the world, if the mom of your family gets a little meltdowny when all you’re trying to do is sightsee or play a game or eat a meal together, please try to understand what that “together” represents to her. You will tell her, kindly and with the most reas- suring of intentions, that it doesn’t matter if everything doesn’t work out. But you see, it matters to her because YOU matter to her. If she’s falling apart, it’s because she wants so much to hold you all together.
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JULY/AUGUST 2022 • SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE
SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • JULY/AUGUST 2022
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