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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - I don't think I am explaining myself well.

The point of my post is that despite turning out "okay" I wish I had a deeper/warmer emotional connection with my mother. She was super strict/religious and overreacted about everything when I was growing up so I quickly felt from a very young age that I couldn't really share anything with her and my ticket out was to do well in school. And it's still true - whenever I am with her she immediately reverts back to treating me like a teenager and still takes my younger sister's side in every conflict so my instinct is to just both of them at arms length.

This is all coming to a head now since they are crashing my vacation next week. Again not a real question, just complaining.

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It is because while she did not give you everything you think you deserved or everything you plan to give your children just remember she had way less than even you had. She did the best she could with the very little parenting she got, and you were going to do the best you can with the very little parenting you got, and then your children are going to judge you the same way because they had more, but they’re not gonna understand why they didn’t have even more.[/quote]

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