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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I've been estranged from my alcoholic mom since I was in college and we were never very close when I was growing up. (If you know an addict, you know what it's like to try to have a relationship with them). I got married, had kids (two daughters), and went through a lot of other life events with having a mom present in my life. I hear people say things like "no one loves you like a mom" and I guess I just don't relate. I don't feel like I have something big missing from my life because I honestly don't know what I'm missing, if that makes sense. I'm close with my own kids, and I treasure my relationship as their mom, so I know what it feels like to BE a mom, but not really to have one. I'm an only child and I've just filled my life with people I love who love me so I know what it's like to be loved and that has to be good enough because it is what it is. So no, I don't really have a specific stand in. I look forward to being there for my daughters when/if they get married and have kids, and I guess I figure that's what I was given in this life - the chance to be on that side of the equation. Some people get neither, others get one, and some are really lucky and get both but I have enough great things in my life that I just try to focus on that. [/quote]

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