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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was also going to ask you about your mom.  It's less of an issue for me now, but when I was younger, I found myself frequently uncomfortable with many women, especially "girly girls".  My mom got cancer when I was 13, and died a few years later.  This phenomenon of being uncomfortable with women is actually described in the "Motherless Daughters" book.  [/quote]

PP who talked about her mom here.  You hit the nail on the head.  It is very hard to enjoy the company of women when not socialized to.  My mother never taught me how to do my hair or dress, she never took an interest in who I was. I don't have any of the formative experiences that other women take for granted - manis/pedis, shopping for clothes, talking about boys, maybe cooking/sharing recipes, or just hanging out with mom. I had no idea how to carry myself as a woman or what it was like to feel safe in the company of women.  Now, I am a fashionable, feminine woman (the learning has been hard work), but it is very hard as an unmothered woman to relate to other women.[/quote]

You do realize not all women, even women with moms do the things you outlined?[/quote]

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