True story.
A women is visiting her mother in the hospice. Her mother has been fighting the good fight against multiple myloma and is on a strong cocktail of pain killers. The daughter who has been by her bedside for the last year goes to see her before going out that night. Before she can even ask her mom about how the day has gone, her mom looks at her and says "you going out in that". And they spend the next 10 minutes fighting over her outfit, as they have been doing since she was 16 and her mom stopped buying her clothing.
We can't change our mothers. They are our mothers. Life gave them no instruction book when they had us.
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This is so true! I can't think of a more sacred relationship. Even to this day I cherish my Mom and our daily chit chats/bickering about our lives. I'm so thankful for her advice.
Try it from both sides, honey. As a mother, you spend the ENTIRE time trying to ensure that you won't HAVE that relationship you so despised ... only to discover you find yourself saying the same things to YOUR kid that your mother said to you.
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