What I Thought Was Mine: When Love Hurts, Survival Speaks

By Jolene Rosario

What I Thought Was Mine is a deeply personal mother-daughter memoir about love, survival, and the limits of control.

Told through lived experience, it follows a mother raising her daughter in a world shaped by outside influence, fractured systems, and blurred boundaries-revealing how children absorb environments long before they can name them, and how mothers are often held responsible for outcomes they are not empowered to prevent.

This book is not about blame or blame-casting. It is about endurance, intuition, and the difficult clarity that comes when love alone is not enough to protect what matters most. With emotional precision and restraint, it examines the difference between care and control, devotion and self-erasure, and what it takes to stop carrying what was never yours to hold.

For mothers, daughters, and readers drawn to honest memoirs about family, trauma, and resilience, What I Thought Was Mine offers recognition, language, and the quiet strength of being seen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHTGYHY4
• ISBN13: 9798244213508
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"