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Reply to "When the kids go to college, I'm out of this loveless and affectionless marriage"
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[quote=Anonymous]It's selfish in the sense that, beyond a certain point, such a mom isn't motivated by the reasonable needs of the child. She's responding to resolve her own anxiety about being a good mom or respond to what she perceives as social expectations about being a good mom and not being a bad mom who is, for example, shunned by the other neighborhood mommies. (Maybe she's trying to avoid the disapproving looks when other mothers find out that she has not taught Junior baby sign language or that she's not preparing her own organic baby food.) She might get social status or the benefits of martyrdom from overdoing the mothering in way that she doesn't get from doing a reasonable amount of mothering and paying attention to their spouses. [/quote]
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