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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with therapy, OP, and here is something that I once heard about this:
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The parent-child relationship is probably the most sacred of all relationships and in life, if we are lucky, we have two chances to experience it as it should be lived. The first is almost totally out of our control. The second -- our relationship with our own kids -- is almost completely within our control. [/b]

The more you build strong and loving relationship with your own children, the more you will experience healing in the deficiency of the relationship with your own mother. [/quote]

Not OP but -- wow, thank you.  I needed to read that. Karma +1 to you, I hope. [/quote]

I would say that we have a third chance to experience it -- to parent ourselves as we would have wished to be parented.  Whatever it is you thought you missed from your parent -- build it for yourself.  Find some older peers who can advise/mentor you as a person and parent.  Find a therapist.  Do things for yourself that your parent should have (i.e. get educated, save, etc.)  Build a stable adult family relationships with a partner, in-laws or other relatives or friend circle.[/quote]

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