You've lost weight. You look great. Slight backstory. About seven years ago, I was forcibly moved out by my father.

And after my mother tried to guilt trip me into dropping the associated court case, we went no contact for a while.

She and I are on good terms now, but it took a while for us to get comfortable meeting up again.

And this interaction occurred during our first meetup after that point.

Because of how much this had affected my life, I'd been between jobs for a while and was severely

struggling with the poverty of very abruptly having to fend for myself on top of the mental

issues caused by the incident. Suffice to say, I was really struggling to have regular meals

and was definitely not at 100%.

It had been close to a year since she'd last seen me. And due to this intense poverty,

I'd naturally lost close to 30 kilograms, 66 pounds, since then. I was slightly overweight before

and was now just slightly underweight. Don't worry, I wasn't skin and bones.

Now, Mom was trying to be friendly, and I'm sure she did sincerely mean it as a compliment

when she said, you've lost weight, you look great, as she's also struggled with her weight

a bit. However, I was still quite bitter and uncomfortable with seeing her again after the start

she took, and it wasn't exactly intentional weight loss.

So I looked at in the eyes and said, thank you. It's from the malnutrition since I can't

afford to eat properly. Guys, she went freaking silent. I don't think she looked me in the eye for the

rest of the meetup. I would never be so bluntly rude to her now since we're on good terms, but she

really needed the reminder of how bad my life had become because of the incident. At least she

bought me a F ton of groceries afterwards because of it, so I had some proper food again for a while.

Yeah, I mean, that's a good thing I guess, but she can't just like buy some groceries for you in the short term

and that makes up for everything that's happened in the long term. I don't know what the incident

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