There is something I want you to understand. I would rather suffer a thousand tortures than have you look upon me with pity in your eyes. The last thing I want you to see is your mother a broken woman, questioning every decision she made in her life.

[It's probably something no mother would want their children to see.]

But know that I understood what was important in life because of you. Because no matter what decisions I may have regretted during that time, none of them were you.