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If You Dread Your Upcoming Visit With Your Mother- This Could Help

Standing in the card aisle looking for a Mother’s Day card, you freeze. [The same holds true for all holidays and required gift giving celebrations.]  Nothing seems to fit how you feel. All of the cards you see describe a mother/daughter relationship you don’t recognize. Sappy. Sugary sweet. Over the top. “ARGGG,  Why do I have […]

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Why You Dread Your Upcoming Visit With Your Mother? This Could Help

Standing in the card aisle looking for a Mother’s Day card, you freeze. [The same holds true for all holidays and required gift giving celebrations.]  Nothing seems to fit how you feel. All of the cards you see describe a mother/daughter relationship you don’t recognize. Sappy. Sugary sweet. Over the top. “ARGGG,  Why do I have […]

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Are You Dreading Mother’s Day?

Can you relate? Standing in the card aisle looking for a Mother’s Day card, you freeze. Nothing seems to fit how you feel. All of the cards you see describe a mother/daughter relationship you don’t recognize. Sappy. Sugary sweet. Over the top. “ARGGG,  Why do I have to go through this every year, you say to […]

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What Happens When Mothers Cling to Their Daughters- The Destructive Effects

  When Mom clings to her daughter and stops looking for closeness with her husband… she sets a dysfunctional destructive cycle in motion.  This destructive dynamic happens all too easily. Dad says something clueless or in mom’s view, thoughtless, and a knowing glance towards her daughter is followed by an EYEROLL. Before you know it, mom […]

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Here’s What Happens When Mothers Cling to Their Daughters & Won’t Let Them Go

  When Mom clings to her daughter and stops looking for closeness with her husband… she sets a dysfunctional destructive cycle in motion. This destructive dynamic happens all too easily. Dad says something clueless or in mom’s view, thoughtless, and a knowing glance towards her daughter is followed by an EYEROLL. Before you know it, […]

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Suffocated: When Mothers Cling to Their Daughters & Won’t Let Them Go

  When Mom clings to her daughter and stops looking for closeness with her husband… she sets a dysfunctional destructive cycle in motion. This destructive dynamic happens all too easily. Dad says something clueless or in mom’s view, thoughtless, and a knowing glance towards her daughter is followed by an EYEROLL. Before you know it, […]

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Suffocated: When Mothers Cling to Their Daughters & Don’t Let Them Go

When Mom clings to her daughter and stops looking for closeness with her husband… she sets a dysfunctional destructive cycle into motion. This destructive dynamic happens all too easily. Dad says something clueless or in mom’s view, thoughtless, and a knowing glance towards her daughter is followed by an EYEROLL. Before you know it, mom […]

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When Mom Looks to Her Daughter To Be Her Emotional Partner- Why Maternal Parentification Is a Problem

( Here is what maternal parentification looks like) Help, my Mother won’t let go- ” Mom calls me many times a day and I  don’t pick up. I put off calling her back as long as I can. I know this hurts her feelings but what she doesn’t realize is this – Although I am […]

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When Mom Looks to Her Daughter To Be Her Emotional Partner- Why Maternal Parentification Is a Problem ( Part 1)

( Here is what maternal parentification looks like) Help, my Mother won’t let go- ” Mom calls me many times a day and I  don’t pick up. I put off calling her back as long as I can. I know this hurts her feelings but what she doesn’t realize is this – Although I am […]

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Here’s Why You Can’t “Make” Mom Happy – Although You Can Waste A Lifetime Trying

When you look back do you realize how much of your life you have tried to make mom feel better about herself? Before you realized it was an impossible thankless job, did you spent much of your childhood being good for mom so mom would be happy? You didn’t, couldn’t, realize it was a trap. It didn’t […]

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