My son was only 1 year and 6 months old when I left him. 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠. My husband and I struggled to put food on the table. So when the opportunity to come to Hong Kong knocked on my door, I grabbed it, thinking about my son’s future. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬. In the past, we only had old phones, so when my son had homework, I needed to send multiple messages to help him because the old phones couldn’t fit one paragraph in a single text message. They could only contain 160 characters, so I had to send many messages until the whole paragraph was sent. I miss my son so much. Now, my son has already graduated and has a stable job. It’s time for me to go home for good.
Being away from my son is painful. Initially, he didn’t want me, and he was too shy to come close to me. But as he grew older and matured, that slowly changed, and he got closer to me. 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬. I sent cards and occasional gifts. However, there were challenges. Sometimes, the network was very bad, and I had too much work. When he was in school, I was working, and by the time I finished at night, he was already asleep.
𝐔𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦, 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐧. I shared with him how to save and budget his finances. My hopes and dreams for my son are for him to have his own family and be financially stable.
To other supermoms, the advice I have is that 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲! Teach your children kindness, patience, and also how to say “NO.”
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