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Why did his mom have to be thenot only his father but also his entire fa with hisout that his father to his credit had never cursed or call her out of her na soood in that man, because nohis ether; that did deserve a nition he reluctantly admitted

"There's the only way to stop a cycle" He heard hisJayden didn't know it, but she too hated this and hated having to be the one to have to teach her son this lesson She wanted to be the immature one, the jilted woman who trashed the deadbeat dad and his fa her son

Despite her feelings about Jacob and his family, he was still her son's father and she was the one who had made the choice to be with Jacob She had to re Jacob that above all else she loved her son and his best interest had to cos Therefore she had sed her curses and ate up her pride trying to keep her son well-rounded and balanced when it came to his perception of his father and himself as a man She would let her son make up his own mind and draw his own conclusion of his father based on his own interactions with hirowth into a proper and responsible iveness and compassion Also in retrospect there was no need to trash thethat she could have said about or done to his reputation

Sure she had several colorful names that she would have loved to call thatbastard was just as good as calling her son a good for nothing, trifling bastard Jayden was his father's son and if she would do anything to cause her son to hate his father; she would be teaching her son to hate hio; "…you can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself"[iii] [see reference] Like it or not, Jacob was Jayden's roots and Jayden was Jacob's fruit and she had to accept it as a fact of life However Marla looked up to the heavens and in her spirit she told God, 'Don't ask ain'