My mother never taught me how to talk to boys..
How to sex a boy..
Or how to seduce the one you love..
My mother focused on teaching me how to respect my elders..
How to set the table for Thanksgiving, and how to articulate my words..
My mother forgot to teach me how to tell if a boys interested in you..
Or how to tell if a boy LOSES interest in you..
She forgot the other things..Like, how to cook for your husband, and make sure that it's perfect..
How to tell if you're pregnant..
How NOT to get pregnant.
We never had sex talks..
Boy talks..
Or grown-up talks..
She never put me on birth control, because she was in denial..
And although, I'm 20 years old now..We keep our conversations simple and short..
My boyfriends name does NOT come up in the conversation..
We are not to talk about him, my sex life, or what I cook for him when he gets off of work..
My mother never bought me condoms, or camasutra books..
My mother never bought me lace tops, or short skirts..
My mother taught me how to iron my shirt properly..and what kind of materials to put in the cleaners..
She taught me how to worship God, and how to speak in tongues..
My mother forgot to teach me how to raise a child..
Or how to cook for someone other than myself..
How to make kool-aid, because according to Dianna, "Koolaid is the devils drink. Sugar is f the devil"
My mother taught me how to be flattering..
My mother never taught me how to be sexy..
...And so Im awkward.
My mother taught me how to love her.
But never taught me how to love him.
...And so Im struggling.
My mother taught me how to cross the street
But never taught me how to look both ways in my relationship
...And so I got hit - on multiple occassions
My mother never taught me that if a man turns his cell-phone off EVERY time he's with you..he's hiding something or someone
My mother taught me that appearance is everything, but she never taught me that there are two different types of appearances..
The ones that men think are beautiful, and the ones that we think are beautiful
My mother taught me that the ones that never show that they love you, love you the most
But she also said that if he doesn't show that he loves you -- kick his ass to the curb
My mother taught me that girls are supposed to hang with girls..and the girls that DO hang with boys are whores..They get pregnant, they have multiple baby-daddys, and they end up on welfare
But she never taught me how not to be that girl..
My mother taught me how to set a table for dinner and how to pick out quality shoes
But she never taught me how to pick out a quality man.