Posted on 09/27/2022 8:32:32 AM PDT by lowbridge
My children were born in New York City. As toddlers, they played in the American Museum of Natural History, joined baby-music classes on the Upper East Side, gnawed on street pretzels, and threw leaves in the air in Central Park.
I had originally expected to be a Manhattan mom, but over the years I've come to accept they are now southern kids living in Houston, Texas.
They wear shorts year-round, wear sunshine on their skin, crave Whataburger, have never made a snowman, and get pumped for Go Texan Day, dressed in boots, vests, and hats — it's like Halloween twice a year in my eyes.
It wasn't my idea to move from a comfortable life in Manhattan to Houston, my ex's home city. I thought it was supposed to be temporary, but I was wrong.
Texas showed me BBQ festivals, square dancing, bluebonnets, and the flaws of my marriage. Now with a Texas divorce decree and the kids settled in school with friends and activities, it seems like I'm stuck here for good, or at least until my kids grow up.
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There are also experiences that remind me I'm in Texas, like a dead snake's skin being tangled in my daughter's scooter wheels, a "beware of alligators" sign at a playground, armadillo sightings, a lack of road shoulders, and guns-and-ammo signs next to a pet store.
I worry about my kids' safety wherever they go while living in a state with historically loose gun laws. I worry about what women's health will be like for my daughter's generation. I debate on how young of an age I will tell her about contraceptives because of the war on women's access to care and treatment in this state.
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AKA “Karen moves to Texas”
I’ll pay for this bitch’s plane ticket back to New York.
Sounds like she’s the problem and he’s better off without her.
I’ll help ya.
Let her TRY to go live in her beloved Manhattan for a MONTH.
Dear Isobella: www.Google.com/maps. click the Directions button. Enter Tx address, enter desired NYC address. Voila! Turn by turn directions.
No doubt she is in a comfy Houston suburb, too. Cry me a river.
The left already destroyed the entire idea of what a women even is, so she has nothing left to worry about in that regard. If she is so afraid of gun toting Texans, then I invite her to return to Manhattan and deal with the shambling hordes of drug zombies, many of which are also armed, and see how comfortable she feels living among an unarmed law abiding populace.
I know why they got divorced.......................😉
Insane person prefers New York over Texas.
Kids thriving in lots of sunshine despite crazy mom.
she feels LESS SAFE in Texas than New York City?
LMAO
Snakes shed their skin, as they start to grow out of it, and that is what she sees, not a dead snakes skin. Ignorant biotch.
I’d love to live in NY but only if Rudy were mayor.
“I’ll pay for this bitch’s plane ticket back to New York.”
I’ll help. Not so much because I love Texas but because New York deserves to have back the monsters it created.
I think I know why she’s divorced....
“...I worry about my kids’ safety wherever they go...”
You worry about them in Texas, but not New York City????
What kind of idiot are you, Isobela?????
Works for me.
She worries about her kids safety in Texas, but apparently not in NYC, where she imagines them running around in Central Park. Right.
LOL! You gotta be a Texan to understand. It’s better for city slickers to stay home.
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