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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also had a crappy mother but emotionally I grew up and stopped letting a made up holiday bring this much angst into my life. Part of that growing up was recognizing that my mother was neither all bad or all good--like all human beings and that she in large part, simply a product of her environment and untreated mental illness. Dwelling only on the negative holds you victim to the past and recognizing that although I am a much, much better mother than my mom, I also know that I am not perfect either and my kids will judge me just as I judge her.[/quote]

--Some mothers are all bad. 
--a person can be emotionally grownup and still want nothing to do with their mother 
--your line about being judged as we judged our parents is a crock that we hear from abusive parents and the relatives who try to force the kids and adult children to accept the unacceptable. They were abusers. I'm not. As a healthy, emotionally grown up person, I get to distance myself from them because I'm not like them.

If you have to put down abuse survivors to make yourself feel like you're mature and together then you are not as emotionally grown up as you think. [/quote]

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