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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom accidentally got pregnant with me her senior year of high school. She said she remembers sitting at her high school graduation, knowing she was, and trying to figure out how she was going to do it. Her own mom was a single mother and wouldn’t be able to help much. She and my dad moved into a tiny apartment in a crappy area and she got a job. He struggled with addiction and she had to leave him when I was a toddler. Fast forward a few decades, I’m a successful college-educated adult, happily married with children. 
I was overcome with emotion the other day because it hit me that she could have so easily just had an abortion like it was nothing. 
I and my children would be lost to oblivion. 
I called her to ask if she’d considered it and she said not for a second. I thanked her for taking the hard road and giving me life. 
She cried and said while there were some hard days where the future was uncertain, she never once regretted it, I was her purpose in life and now she has beautiful grandbabies that she loves to pieces.
I don’t know why I wanted to share this here, but I guess I had never considered that a different choice could have been made and I wouldn’t be here today. And I’m so grateful that I am. [/quote]

How was your mom’s life? Did she ever go to college or become happily married? Did she struggle at all? Shouldn’t the quality of her life be another consideration when evaluating her choice? Not just your quality of life. 
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That’s why I called to thank her for going through the struggle she did to give me life.  So we lived in a crappy apartment in a crappy neighborhood and she took the bus to her retail job while I was at a home daycare, she met my stepdad and got married and we moved to a small house in a slightly better neighborhood, she started her own home daycare, had my siblings, eventually moved again to a better neighborhood. She is very happy with her life choices. They were full of selflessness and love. She considers her life to be of great quality, even when it was a struggle. She’s a strong and proud woman now and doesn’t dream of a different life where she made different choices.[/quote]

Funny how you didn’t really acknowledge that - just “fast forwarded” to your own quality of life.

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I feel like I did acknowledge that, but regardless, not everyone has the same definition of “quality of life.” She feels like the decisions/sacrifices she made then, have lead to the very fulfilled and abundant life she gets to live today. 
And she also made clear, that even during the hard times, our home was full of love and that’s what was most important to her. The adversity made me a stronger, more independent person as well, which makes her proud and happy too. [/quote]

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