About authors Keandra Barry is a poet, writer and author of Hit Him Where it hurts and I have a secret but my husband do too: two wrongs can be deadly . Keandra five years of experience shines through her newest collection of short stories. It's a look inside my life with my mother Penny Black and the obstacles we went through in life. I want other women who feel like me to open up more because this is a big problem " Mother and daughter relationships. It make it hard to love your own daughter if all you was taught was to be strong, tough love and shit sometimes feel like no love at all. We need to speak about the big elephant in the room. I love my mother but she make it so hard to do? What happened for us to get this way? Why is it hard for you to just love me? A child should never feel unloved? You made it hard for me to love my daughter properly and that is a problem for me!