I totally get that there are different takes on a character and I'm not seeing her in the same way I do in my own fic, but the abandonment still happened and it's still hard to understand how a mother could choose anything over her child. This is why I find it hard to sympathise with her. Please don't think I'm treating her as a villain. But until a mother hears a viable reason for a mother to leave her child alone, she'll never understand.