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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please, please make sure your children don't ever know you feel this way. The pressure I got from my mom to date had the opposite effect on me entirely. All I ever heard about was how much she dated when she was my age and it made me feel inadequate and like a loser when I wasn't living up to her idea of the perfect, social, desirable-to-boys teenager. Please just don't.

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 23 and was convinced something was terribly wrong with me and that I was unlikeable and undateable and just un-everything. It was a horrible self-perpetuating cycle created by my mother. [/quote]

Similar!  I was attractive, athletic, fairly popular and had a ton of guy friends, but for whatever reason was never asked out.  I didn’t have a real boyfriend until post-college.  The first one wasn’t great but I think it was pressure.

I can now see my mom is if a time when women felt like they needed a man, an escort.  She’s now widowed and will say things like—her two college best friends invited her to their vacation home but they have their husbands there so it will be weird.  Wtf?  She turns 80 this year.  [/quote]

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