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[quote=Anonymous]My memories of childhood are very good. I remember my mother as sweet, interesting, affectionate, and positive. However, as time has gone on, my mother seems to have become very self-centered. Or, well, she was always vain and I hear was the worst in high school/college, but in the throes of motherhood and raising small children, I think that was set aside for a while. Well, as we got older, she bounced back to being very vain and haughty and she drives me crazy. She finds value in her children only when there's something worthy to brag about. She BRAGS ALL THE TIME, about everything and anything which she thinks can raise her status. She was such a good mother when we were young. But now she is very judgmental, cruel, curt, and authoritarian. You would think, as her children entered adulthood, she would be more respectful but it's in the reverse. Whenever I leave an interaction with her the word "mean" just repeats over and over again. WTF happened to her?

I've read sooo many anecdotal things about how children who were distant from their parents, grow closer as they get older or even generally, people become closer to their parents as they also enter parenthood. It's completely the opposite. It scares me. I hope I don't turn into some obnoxious monster when my kids grow up!!![/quote]

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