A single parent provided a stable home with food and shelter, but the narrator felt something missing emotionally. Growing up in that household shaped how they think about family, expectations, and what it means to feel secure.
my mom was basically running a single-parent household. And the memory that was there is that I could tell we were okay financially. Yes, we had a roof over our head and we had provisions that were needed, but there was a sense that there wasn't much more in that sense. It just really felt like we had enough to get by. But it really did feel like something is kind of off here. This is not the, this is not the traditional family home in that sense.
