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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I'm spending more time with mom.

I think the several (or is it just one?) people who are scolding me and chiding me because mom parented me as a child (changed diapers, potty trained me, etc.) are really a little strange.  I'm not neglecting my mother, and I'm not an ungrateful daughter.  I love my mother and I want to have a better relationship. 
Moreover, to the extent that my mother wants to see her legacy as a mother passed on and treasured by me -- it would be how I parent my own children with great diligence, which is the way my mother sees and takes joy in the fact that her own parenting of me is passed on, not by my seeing to her every need.  She's not a child.

Also, I think your notions that it is selfish to ever complain or discuss problems in a parental relationship -- merely because one's mother is one's mother -- are stifling.  One discusses problems in a relationship because one cares about that relationship and wants to make it better.  Even with a parent, there is room for personal growth in a relationship, or should be.  I hope my children can come to me and say "Mom, we need to talk about this, because it's really bothering me."  Regardless of the fact that I changed their diapers.  Or even more so because of that fact.[/quote]

Then give her pictures in a photo album not online.[/quote]

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