She Said, ‘I’ll Make You Happy, Mommy’ and My Heart Shattered

One quiet, exhausted morning, my daughter looked at me with wide, serious eyes and said,
“Mommy, I need to make you happy.”
And just like that, my heart broke.
Not because she was wrong but because she wasn’t.
She read my mood, absorbed it, and believed it was her job to fix it.

This post is about that gut-punch moment, the childhood patterns I never meant to pass on, and how one sweet children’s book helped us talk through something big.