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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

Thank you so, so, so much for all of the supportive replies. I really didn't know what to expect when I posted - I felt like at worst, I would be attacked and left feeling worse than I started; at best I might get a few shallow niceties or ignored. But a lot of you gave me really thoughtful, helpful responses. Especially those of you with older kids and a better perspective on everything.

A few things said here have really resonated, and I am enormously grateful to you if you took time to reply. I think it will still be a process, and, like a lot of you said, something I need to 'grow out of' as I get out of this particularly tough phase of parenting. But I honestly feel better today than I have in weeks, so thank you. Sometimes you find help in the unlikeliest of places, even in an anonymous cesspool forum like this one ;)

A theme in a lot of people's replies was that I do not have to repeat the patterns of my own mother with my daughters, and I have been thinking about that a lot. Last night I was reading my daughter stories at bedtime and doing funny voices, and I remembered that my mom once told me she doesn't "do" storytime, and never did. It's a little thing, but it just helped me realize that I am different than my mom, and my daughter is different from me. Our dynamic will be entirely different than ours was, for better or worse.

Thank you! [/quote]

Aw, thanks for the update OP.  Glad you've been feeling better.  Sometimes it helps just to get things off your chest and know you're not alone!  Happy Thanksgiving :)[/quote]

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