This happened earlier today. I 16M have been nurturing this plant since I turned 14. This plant was my baby. It was there through years of trauma. It sat in the window and watched me grow, box, study. It was there with me on nights I couldn’t sleep. Needless to say I grew mentally attached to this plant, it was my baby. His name was Henry.
Today I went into my mom’s room and showed her my plant. She was on the phone with her friend and Henry was leaning (per usual, he goes where the sun is as I was trying to explain to my mom before she broke him). My mom said “maybe you should get a popsicle stick to hold him-“ Snap. At first I chuckled, he wasn’t severed, it was just slightly broken. My laugh was short lived when I realized he had snapped. Right at the base.
I couldn’t even walk. My mom tried to convince me up and down he wasn’t broken and we could stick him back on. But she was laughing. My legs felt like jelly and I fell to the ground and she was laughing at the fact she just took two years of hard work from me. No apology, nothing.
I was so distraught as she tried to find answers I just told her “This is why he’s gone now because you think you know everything.” She told me I was talking to her crazy and that me and my plant could leave her room. She took away two years of my hard work. My love, my care, my passion was in that plant. I feel like I lost a part of my soul with Henry. He was a true goat. If you guys want pictures dm me. I don’t know how to proceed. I lost two of my dearest loved ones and now the worst of all was a freaking plant. I don’t know why it hurts so bad but it does.
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I’m so sorry. I love my plants, too, and I’m sorry your mom couldn’t react with love and compassion.
What kind of plant was this, maybe there’s a solution?