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Dear Dr. G., My absolute best friend sent me an article you wrote about a girl who had a mom who was the ”daughter” of the relationship. That article hit the nail on the head with my relationship with my mom. I love my mom with all my heart but it’s coming to a point in my life where I don’t want to talk to her because she has become such a negativity in my life. I’m not sure when or where or who it happened to first but it’s gotten to the point where I’ve become depressed and angry whenever I talk to her. I moved out to Los Angeles when I just turned 20 from a small town in NJ. It started around then, I think. I was living in a whole new world and going to college for my dreams. I was happy that I was finally able to have some independence and start my life the way I wanted. Then my mom started. First it was the end of the day phone calls, everyday saying ”Don’t forget to lock your door, I want to hear you lock it." And I would literally lock the door with the phone next to it. I had no problem at the time with this, if it gave my mom a sense of safeness for me then I figured it was OK. It got much worse after that. Over the next few years if I didn’t talk or text my mom on a daily basis she thought I was dead in a ditch somewhere. After I graduated college I wound up having to move back home for a while to get my head on straight and save money to move back to LA. I felt like a failure and cried often. My mom and I argued over everything and anything. It got so bad that my dad had to separate us one day. My parents are divorced but still close friends. My mom remarried. I understand that having a 23-year-old daughter living at home without a job hating her life can’t be easy, but she wasn’t making it easier. She would be so over the top with things it was crazy. I was afraid to tell her anything. She’s criticized me for sleeping too much then sleeping not enough. She was a hypocrite and said she wasn’t. It finally got to the point where I just felt like a failure and decided to take a big chance and apply for jobs in LA again. I asked a friend to stay on his couch until I got back on my feet and he said OK. Well, once I told her that she got even more neurotic and would get really quiet and just OK me to death on things. I told her the day I was leaving numerous times and when the day came she screamed at me for not telling her. But then she gives me her credit card in case I need something. Fast forward two months and I finally have a great job and I’m saving up to get my own apartment. My roommates and I went out for one of their birthdays and my phone had died on the way home. I have this iPhone app called find my friends and I figured again, as peace of mind hoping she would lay off me, to add my mom. It was 4 am PST when I got the text message asking where I was because find my friends said I was on the freeway and hadn’t moved. I was drunk and trying to sleep and told her I’m home on the couch sleeping. She called me a liar and said no you’re not. I said yes I am. Then we got into another argument with her ending it ”I’m calling the cops to make sure." Granted she didn’t but still that’s when I realized it was getting bad with her. If I didn’t immediately reply to a text message she would start with ”helllloooo?” And they’d get nastier until I got back to her. She’s start saying ”fine I guess you don’t want to talk to me. Bye." Fast forward almost a year and I finally have my first boyfriend. I was trying not to be rude and be on my phone all the time and so I’d leave it in my purse or just out of site when I would be with him. And again the hateful Facebook messages and statuses would start. If I didn’t talk to her for one day she wouldn’t sleep and the she’d get mad at me. Then I’d continue to ignore it hoping it would go away and she’d apologize. I’d talk to her and tell her how I felt and how my boyfriend would be a bit upset when I was constantly on my phone. It’s now gotten to the point where she keeps telling me she’s a bad mom and an asshole and all this self-hatred stuff. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t want to talk to her and if I say I that then she turns it around on me and starts a pity party. I love my mom but I can’t get it through to her that I’m an adult before she takes these drastic measures and says these hateful things. In fact as I wrote this I’m bawling my eyes out at work because of a text message she sent me saying this "Sorry I’ve disappointed you as a mom. You’re even now. You’ve broken my heart. You don’t have to talk with me anymore. I’m leaving jimmy taking my dogs and I’m gone. Life is one big f- up. You were right. I love you. Bye" Because I’ve been going through a rough time and just needed to talk about things. There is so much more to this and I appreciate any time you have spent reading this. I’m hoping to talk to someone soon who can maybe put our issues into a perspective that I can understand. An Exhausted Daughter Dear Daughter, I am really happy that you wrote to me. You have endured a very difficult set of behaviors for way too long. It sounds like you are extremely loving, patient, and flexible. It also seems quite clear that your mother has a difficult set of issues that are clearly impacting your relationship with her and how you feel in general. To me it sounds like there is some role confusion going on. Your mother appears to treat you like someone who should be taking care of her needs. The problem is that you are the daughter and she is the mother. Clearly, your mother has difficulty with emotional control, anxiety, and anger issues. Your mother does need to get therapeutic help. Perhaps her current husband can be encouraged to recommend this to her. I am reluctant to suggest that you recommend therapy to and for her because I am concerned that this will backfire and she will get angry with you. You can't please your mother. Nor can you predict how she is going to react to you. This must be crazy-making. I suggest that you decrease the frequency of contact that you have with your mother and that you set clear limits with her. If she becomes intensely emotional or critical on the phone then put an end to the interaction. There is no need to feel guilty about this. The hope is that by terminating the conversations she will understand that her harsh and critical behavior is unacceptable. Additionally, I would like you to feel like you have some control over your life and relationship with your mother. We get the mother that we get and sometimes we get a tough one. Please recognize that your mother has issues and limitations and despite this get on with the business of enjoying your life. Good luck to you. Dr. G. 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Idon’t want him to know anything about me because of my dislike for him. My brother and I have never been close. He started drinking heavily about 25 years ago (before my dad died), which
Not looking forward to Mother's Day? Not all parent-child relationships are like the commercials. Here are 7 ways to build a better relationship with your mom. While commercials for Mother’s Day gifts and activities seem to always show smiling, happy interactions, relationship experts know that parent-child connections can be fraught with conflict. Some studies have even shown that as many as 30 percent of adult women have strained connections with their mom. But don’t stress if you are among those who wish you enjoyed your mother more. Here are some simple though not always easy things you can do to heal a rift or just improve your relationship with your mother, according Samara Serotkin, a mindfulness-based psychologist practicing in Seattle. 1. First, identify where your relationship is at and where you want it to be. If you talk to your mother on the phone once a year, but wish it were once a month, ask yourself why you are not there. Then take one small step toward your goal. “Eventually that gap will be closed,” Serotkin said. Most Read Life Stories Fires close trails, camping areas in North Cascades National Park Is it time to stop taking vitamin D? These Seattle chefs think you should have dinner with strangers VIEW Finding fried chicken and fish nirvana in Kent All in a spellbinding Ashland weekend Oregon Shakespeare Festival and whitewater rafting VIEW 2. Clarify your intentions about why you want to improve the relationship. Do you want to do it for yourself? So your children can have a relationship with their grandmother? Or because you think you just should but you’re not clear on why? Serotkin said to address the relationship with a clear understanding of what it means to you. “I have clients who want their children to be able to have an OK relationship with grandma. If they can remember that the next time their mother says something they’re not a fan of, they can think, I could fight about that, but I’m doing it for the kid.’ And they can stay focused.” Re-examine the issue if you are only doing it because you feel obligated. “That rarely works out well and often turns into resentment or even more tension.” 3. Practice gratitude. If someone believes they have a negative or difficult relationship, they can fall into the rut of only seeing what confirms what they already believe to be true, she said. If you, instead, start a practice of intentionally looking for and noticing details that are positive or well-motivated about your mother for a week, it can change your thinking. “Specifically targeting the positive can shift the cognitive bias and make you happier.” For extra credit, Serotkin suggests writing a letter or sending mom a card, perhaps for Mother’s Day, just describing something your mother did well or a time you had fun together. “It can literally be, I remember the day you took me out for ice cream and that was wonderful.’ ” 4. Practice compassion or loving-kindness meditation. Begin by imagining a living creature that you find easy to love, maybe your child, perhaps a pet or a best friend. Focus your mind’s eye on that person and offer them kind wishes such as, “May you be happy, may you be well, may you be filled with peace.” Now imagine that it is a person you feel neutral toward and extend those same thoughts toward her. Finally, imagine your mother before you and send those thoughts and well wishes toward her. “Buddhists believe that you are making a real difference with that practice. Even if your love energy does not reach the person you are thinking of, it helps you build neural connections and makes a difference for you.” 5. Check your assumptions. You think that you know what a hamburger is because you’ve eaten them before. But in reality not every hamburger is the same. It’s the same with people, Serotkin said. You may think you know your mother, but you don’t know everything. What was she like as a child? A young adult? What were her fears? How has she grown? Looking at your mother as a dynamic, changing human being leaves room for her, and for you and your relationship, to change and grow. 6. Try giving your mother, or anyone else you find difficult, the gift of your full attention when you are together. Say to yourself, “Wherever we are, for this hour or however long we are together, I am yours.” Make it about them, let them lead and don’t allow yourself to be triggered. “Go to that diner she loves and you hate because it is not about you, it is about her.” Serotkin said it’s reasonable to set an hour time frame for this one. 7. Think of what lights your mother up and what brings out the best in her and then tell her about it. Whether she loved gardening or being a soccer mom, remind her of those times. “Everyone loves to be reminded of when they were at their best.” 8. And if all of this doesn’t help, it might be time to talk to a professional who can help you figure out the next best step.
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My elder sister has always been tricky for me to deal with as she is very critical and suspicious of anyone’s opinions or motives, and pulls everyone down for their life choices. For the sake of our elderly mother, we all try to bumble along but this has not been to ill health, I have had more financial support from Mum than my sister, on the proviso that all will be evened out with any future inheritance. This has caused tensions between my sister and myself – understandably – but I have done my best to make sure everyone in the family knows and agrees about this. I have found it particularly difficult as my elder sister is two-faced about it – encouraging me to ask Mum for help against any “future money” while saying very horrible things to my other sister. My mother now has early onset dementia – her memory is poor, and Mum is anxious that we siblings all get on. Because of this, Mum will tell us different things, which of course makes honest communication between us all even more has decided to move to live near my elder sister. We are all a bit sad about this having offered for many years to have her live with us but all want what’s best for sister has now become very difficult and refuses to involve my brother or me in any plans she gets on with my younger sister. While with Mum recently, I read her post for her, to find that my elder sister has now been awarded power of attorney PoA.Because I find my sister so slippery to deal with, as I find she moves the truth around to suit her defensive position, I thought long and hard about how to request that she keeps my brother and me in the loop. Her reply was simply, “Why should I?” I just don’t know how to deal with her and want very much to be your mother actively know and approve the power of attorney? Did she have capacity to do that? She can only grant PoA if she has capacity. And, in that case, only the person giving it – in this case your mother – can apply for it. Your sister should not have applied for it on her behalf.“Any conversation about PoA,” says Gary Rycroft, a solicitor and member of the Law Society wills and equity committee, “should start with the person who wants to give PoA saying, I’d like to give PoA to …’ Not someone saying I’d like to apply for PoA for …’”In dealing with a tricky member of the family, my advice is to always pick the medium you best converse in – so if you can’t talk to each other, could you consider email for communication? That way, too, you will have a record of what has been interesting that your younger sister gets on with her and I wonder if she could be the one to bring you all together in this? Does your elder sister keep the younger one in the loop about your mother’s care?I’ve taken out the location where your mother may be moving to as I didn’t want to identify you, but note that if she does move outside England and Wales different laws may apply, according to where her assets do your other siblings feel? If your mother wants you all to get on, is she aware that you can all be given PoA by her? Just because you don’t get on very well with your sister, doesn’t mean that she will mishandle your mother’s affairs, but I do think that, even in the most convivial family, being transparent, united and correct in the way you handle things for an elderly person is a good think you and your other siblings need to establish exactly what your mother wants. This is key – it is her life and assets we are talking about. The questions to ask areWho does she want to have as PoA? Does she know all her children can be given PoA? Does she want you to have PoA for property and finance or welfare and health or both there are two types? Is her will up to date and does it reflect – if she wants it to – who has already had money from her, such as you?“When you do this, also ask your mum about her advance care planning and how she’d like you to act on her behalf,” says one likes to look into a future where a parent can’t decide things for themselves, but it can make difficult decisions further down the line so much the Office of the Public Guardian if you feel your mother’s best interests are not being served – ie you have a concern about how your sister is handling your mother’s thinks the answer to your sister’s question “Why should I?” is simple “Because we are also our mother’s children and we care about what happens to her.”Your priority is your mother and her care. If she is being well looked after, if her wishes are being followed and if she is not in any way being exploited, you may need to leave your difference with your sister to one side for now. But I still believe all of you should be involved with your mother and your sister’s care of her should include keeping her siblings up to useful link problems solvedContact Annalisa Barbieri, The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU or email Annalisa regrets she cannot enter into personal Annalisa on Twitter AnnalisaB Bookmarkus if you don’t want to miss another Episodes of Thai Drama The Revenge Nov 28, 2017 · See also: Lah Revenge is a 2017/2018 Thai drama about a mother who seeks revenge after she and her daughter are gang-raped. After a mother and her daughter are gang-raped by seven men, the daughter suffers a mental breakdown, and the single mom sets out to get revenge..
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HostsSteve Almond and Cheryl Strayed offer "radical empathy" and advice on everything from relationships and parenthood to dealing with drug problems or anxiety. Today the Sugars hear from two When I was in college, I received a strange phone call. The woman was crying so hard that her words came out in gasps. The woman was having a meltdown because the man she’d been having an affair with had returned to his wife and ended things permanently with kept saying that this man was her only true love, her soulmate, and the only thing in her life worth living for. Since there wasn’t any caller and it was on a landline, it took me a moment to identify the woman on the phone was my the time of the call, my parents were separated and living on separate coasts. My father was in California, and my mother was in Newport, Rhode Island. As far as I knew, my mother didn’t have any family there or any other connection to it. Later, I found out; that she'd moved there to be near to her lover in mother and I aren't close, and we don't enjoy being around each other and disagree about nearly don’t even look alike — she’s tall, slender, and has classic bone structure, whereas I’m short, rounded, and look more European like my father. No one has ever joked that my mother and I are more like sisters or best friends than mother and daughter. There's a huge emotional distance between my mother and me, which is why it was so confusing when she confessed the details of her affair to she have anyone else to talk to besides her estranged daughter?RELATED The Aftermath Of Growing Up With An Emotionally Abusive MotherListening to the intimate details of my mother's love life made me feel itchy and uncomfortable, but she kept talking. It was cathartic for her to talk about him, for she revealed more than ever in the 21 years I’d been name was Charles, Charlie to her, and they’d met when they were young, and their future was full of described how madly in love they were and how he'd gone off to war with promises to come back to her. However, it hadn't worked out that way. My mother and her great love had gone their separate ways, married other people, and had kids, but my mother had never forgotten him. Then one day, over twenty years later, he reached out to my mother, and they restarted their my mother continued speaking, I remembered incidents from the past and put them together to form a picture of I was in middle school, my mother spontaneously took a trip to Chicago. She hadn't gone for business; she was a stay-at-home mom. She told us it was because she was curious about the Windy City, but the truth was she went there to hook up with are some "truisms" my own mother taught me about cheating1. Focus on what you want and do there was when my mother said she was talking to her friend, Laila, and when I asked her to hand the phone over to me so I could speak to Laila’s daughter, Cami, my mother waved me kept asking her to please give me the phone, I had something important to discuss with Cami, but my mother refused. My mother wasn't chatting with Laila about their next garage sale; she was talking to Charlie, even though my father was in the next The more indifferent you are, the more successful your lies mother continued to talk about her heartbreak. I held the phone away from my ear so I could still hear but barely. I didn’t want to be a co-conspirator in my mother’s unfaithfulness. I loved my father and knew he deserved far better than how she treated wondered if my father found out about my mother's infidelity, and that's why they'd separated.“Charlie was the only man I’ve loved,” my mother father’s name was Peter, so please, mom, give me details of how you never loved the conversation, she gave no apologies or seemed to feel any remorse or guilt for cheating on my father. The only reason she was crying was that Charlie refused to leave his wife for my 6 Things People Don't Realize You Do Because You Were Raised By A Toxic MotherAdvertisement Is your relationship worth fighting for? Get clarity with a psychic reading. Click here and get 10 mins for $ Commitment is transitory, and any pain caused to others by cheating isn't must have internalized her message because it wasn’t long into the first real relationship that I began cheating on my boyfriend. The scary thing about it was that I didn’t feel any of the expected emotions healthy people feel when cheating. I didn’t feel bad; I felt justified. My boyfriend wasn’t giving me everything that I needed, so I went to someone that what everybody did?The way my boyfriend and I interacted reminded me a lot of my parent’s relationship. I was cold and distant like my mother, and my boyfriend focused on my Be honest when it suits was honest when I broke up with my boyfriend, Jason, to be with the guy Stefan I’d been cheating on him with. I could tell my words hurt him, but I didn’t sugarcoat it. My mother hadn’t spared my father, and that’s how I thought it was was devastated, and I brushed it off. He’d get over never wanted to be like my mother, so why was I acting like her now?I don’t know if Stefan knew that cheaters tend to cheat over and over again or if he was mostly indifferent to me, but I never felt entirely supported or loved by him. Our relationship was like a steep mountain, and any false move I made would cause me to fall I cheated on him, he might retaliate and cheat on me. The dysfunction of our relationship was more appealing to me than finding someone new. We were together for five unhappy years, and then around the time my father died, we broke The Final Straw That Forced Me To Stop Talking To My Toxic ParentsI cheated on my boyfriends in my next two relationships. I tried not to feel guilty about cheating, but I empathized with those I’d cheated on. I wasn’t as hard-hearted or as self-centered as I pretended to I had another crying phone call from my Stories From YourTangoThough it was decades after Charlie had dumped her, my mother still grieved for the relationship. She was alone, lonely, and still dealing with all the heartbreak she’d brought upon this a glimpse of my future?Maybe my mother didn’t feel remorse for the pain she’d caused, but I did. Soon after that phone call with my mother, I chose never to cheat again. If I didn’t like how things were in my relationship, I’d talk about it with my partner and try to seek out this day, my mother has no regret for the pain she caused both me and my father by cheating or how she made cheating seem like acceptable behavior. It would have been one thing if they'd had an open marriage or were polyamorous, but they weren't. She knew how upset my father would have been if he had found out about her long-time affair and did what she could to keep it a never found out the official reason for my parent's divorce, but it must have been my father finding out about my mother's infidelity. I may be my mother's daughter, but I don't have to be like her. I don't have to be so selfish that no one else's pain matters. She taught me to cheat, but I taught myself how to remain 20 Clear Signs You're The Child Of Toxic ParentsMore for You on YourTangoChristine Schoenwald is a writer and performer. 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SynopsisI Want Your Mother to Be with Me! เรื่องราวความรักของหนุ่มคนหนึ่งกับแม่เลี้ยงเดี่ยว . ตอนที่ I Want Your Mother to Be with Me! ตอนแรก ตอนที่ ? ตอนใหม่ ตอนที่ 32. ตอนที่ 32 เมษายน 21, 2022. ตอน
When Mommy’s little girl grows up and goes off into the world to have her own life, struggles with issues of separation and difference may occur. Eye rolls, hugs, tugs-of-war, and tears are familiar to those who have witnessed or participated in mother-daughter relationships. Frequently, in this new phase of their relationship, mother and daughter are unprepared to deal with their differing needs for the amount, form, and content of contact. Moreover, the impact of physical separation between mother and daughter is affected by the degree to which each needs to feel connected, or to not feel rejected or disconnected. When adult children desire to individuate and develop autonomy, they may struggle to trust their choices and may fear being unable to withstand mom’s influence. Often, to avoid feelings of criticism or incompetence, the daughter will pull away. These may be the daughter’s feelings and may not reflect the reality that mom feels critical or entitled to continue her earlier, authoritative role. From early childhood, mothers and daughters tend to identify with each other. As the daughter moves into adulthood, both may have difficulty with the daughter’s developing an identity that differs from a past shared view of being alike. For some mothers, this can be experienced as a rejection of the mother’s character, worldview, values, opinions, etc. Daughters may have a similar experience. Although we typically think of the daughter needing to pull away from mom to individuate, some daughters who are ambivalent about developing a separate life and sense of self may find they are being pushed by a worried mom to do so. These mothers may try to influence what they see as necessary individuation by reducing the amount and nature of contact with their daughters. Find a Therapist When Daughter Wants More Contact Maggie began therapy at the age of 26 when her mother told her she didn’t think it was good for them to speak every day. She said Maggie should talk to someone to help her feel more confident and self-assured. Maggie sounded irritated when she told me she didn’t really want to be in therapy “I don’t see why I need a therapist. My mother has always been the one in my life who’s made me feel good about myself. She reassures me. I know my biggest issue is I wish I had a boyfriend. I know mom thinks I’m smart and cute and there is no reason for me not to find a man. I’m not so optimistic. There’s something about me that I can’t seem to find a relationship that works. It’s true; I don’t feel so good about myself. But if Mom hasn’t succeeded in helping me, I don’t know what you can do.” I asked Maggie why she thought her mother wanted her in therapy. Maggie began to cry and barely managed to speak “This has never happened before. I guess I’m upset with Mom. How can she do this to me? I tell Mom everything. I rely on her for everything. She’s always there for me. Lately, she’s been pulling back. I feel so rejected. I don’t know what’s going on. She tells me I need to learn to rely on myself and trust myself. How can I do that if she rejects me? Doesn’t she know I need her input? I feel so abandoned. How can therapy help me? I just need my mother back.” When you are the same or one, the relationship is symbiotic, with no space between the two. When you are two separate, distinct people, there is a space within which each can attach to the other. That may be the best contact of all. Maggie and her mother had rarely experienced conflict “I always felt we were on the same page about things. She had great ideas and I was happy to do what she suggested. I took up piano, which we both love, and went to her alma mater when I decided on a college. I enjoy making her happy. I always feel safe that she knows what’s right for me. Now she seems to be telling me that what’s right is to be more on my own, have my own ideas. I do have ideas. They just happen to be the same as her ideas. How would I know what other ideas to have?” Maggie decided to work with me and see if I could help her sort out her feelings about being more separate from her mother. She is beginning to realize she felt good as long as she was living the life her mother valued. She hadn’t recognized that she was so used to looking to her mother for guidelines for living, she paid little or no attention to her own wishes and desires. In fact, when we started working together, Maggie had no concept of her own unique needs, separate from what her mother believed would be good for her. The notion of differences between them was not part of her thinking or feeling. Maggie has begun to think about how her reliance on her mother has limited her by preventing her from developing herself through her relationship to the world. She is considering that her mother may believe she had interfered with Maggie’s ability to individuate and was pushing Maggie away not to reject her, but so she could develop her sense of self. The challenge for Maggie is to move beyond her mother’s wish for her to individuate, and choose to grow her own desires and develop the capacity to feel self-confident and derive self-esteem from a variety of experiences. When Mother Wants More Contact Susan was beside herself. Her 34-year-old daughter, Isabel, who lived in another state, just had her first baby and wanted Susan and her husband to wait a month before visiting their new grandson. Susan had been seeing me for three years when she came into her session overwhelmed with feelings “I can’t believe this. You know how I’ve been so excited about going to visit Isabel and the baby and helping out. I assumed she would need me as soon as the baby arrived. I know she can bristle when I give her my opinions or suggestions about things. But I figured she doesn’t know anything about babies, so this was going to be different. Finally, she would let me be a mother.” I asked Susan why she thought Isabel wanted her to wait. Susan let out a huge sigh and responded “I guess I should have anticipated this. Since she left home for college, she’s been keeping me at a distance. When I worried about her in college, she would take forever to respond to my contacts. I remember explaining that it’s a mother’s job to be concerned and she told me it made her feel like I don’t think she can take care of herself and I need to stop. She was partly right. I still don’t think she knows how to be a mother to a newborn and should welcome my input. But I fooled myself about this. I suppose I need to feel like I’m valued as a mother, and I do get worried that she is too independent and will get herself into trouble.” I reminded Susan that she has been talking with me for some time about how distressed she is about Isabel. When she first came to see me, she was overwhelmed with anxiety that Isabel was about to make a mistake and marry Jake. She was hurt and angry that she had been given no clue that the relationship had progressed to the point of engagement. I recalled that early in our work she had told me she didn’t know why Isabel kept her out of the loop on everything, and I reminded her that we have been looking at that question in our work. Then I asked, “What have you come to understand about this?” Susan shook her head sadly. “I know, I know. Isabel has to live her own life. Jake turned out to be great. I have to remember that my anxiety about Isabel’s life is about my own needs to feel like a good mother. When she was younger, I felt we were two peas in a pod and I always knew exactly what was right for her. That made me feel like a good mom. Now, she has such a different life from mine that I don’t always know who she is or how to be her mom.” I recognized how painful this was for Susan, who wanted to feel like a good mother and desirable grandmother. I thought it important to remind her that lately she has been doing a good job thinking about what Isabel wants and being less intrusive. I told her I knew it was difficult to wait for Isabel to ask her on rare occasions for advice. I also hypothesized that perhaps becoming a grandmother triggered her feelings of wanting to be a good mother/grandmother and she was reverting to old patterns of wanting to be involved on her terms, not Isabel’s. Hopefully, Susan will have an opportunity when she visits Isabel to practice what is so difficult to do not attempt to influence Isabel’s thoughts and feelings. She knows the more she can admire and recognize Isabel’s differences, the more likely Isabel will learn to see her as uncritical and not controlling. Susan is working on this. When mom and her little girl spend their early years thinking of each other as the same, the daughter’s seeking to separate can become a painful process for both. If the daughter wants to remain the child and not venture into the grown-up world, the mother who sees this as problematic faces the dilemma of how to help launch her daughter without creating feelings of abandonment and rejection. When the mother finds separation painful, she has to learn how to give her daughter space so they can attach in a new way. Mother and daughter ultimately have to understand that being separate and different, rather than the same and enmeshed, facilitates a stronger experience of attachment When you are the same or one, the relationship is symbiotic, with no space between the two. When you are two separate, distinct people, there is a space within which each can attach to the other. That may be the best contact of all. Note To protect privacy, names in the preceding article have been changed and the dialogues described are a composite. © Copyright 2016 All rights reserved. Permission to publish granted by Beverly Amsel, PhD, Individuation Topic Expert ContributorThe preceding article was solely written by the author named above. Any views and opinions expressed are not necessarily shared by Questions or concerns about the preceding article can be directed to the author or posted as a comment below. QDC0Hx.
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