One thing I really try my best to avoid is living in the past. With that in mind, I always seem to think of the future. The day my daughter was born, for example, I started to think about her future. I had to figure out what type of bond I wanted with my daughter, I knew that I didn’t want to end up with a struggling relationship like I had with both of my parents as a teenager. I wanted to be the Mom that my daughter would come to for anything, even if I felt it was a silly thing to be worked up over. I wanted to be a compassionate, understanding and loving mother. I wanted to be the Mom that would listen and bring herself down …