What is your relationship with your mother on a scale of 0-10? 0 means cut ties, and 10 means besties.

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10! I call her a couple times a day usually, when I have random news or things that happened in my day (good things)

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I love it hehe

Honestly, 15! She was my soulmate, she died in 2015 and I miss her everyday. I would start and end my day talking to her. I wish she was here now..

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and I’m so sorry you lost you mother. Know that she continues to live in you and your thoughts and actions!

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8/9 I love my mother! We’re very similar human beings. As I’ve gotten older, it’s been easier to have a genuine relationship with her. I would knock a few points for nagging about certain areas in my life ( when are you going to marry?, what are you eating? Etc). I genuinely love the time we spend together and but she will always be my mother and remind me she knows best😂

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lol @ what are you eating! It’s cute how moms always want to know!😂

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8 - went a long time having a hatred towards her & went a few years without talking to her. My parents got divorced & she moved to another state, so I always had a built up anger that she “abandoned me”. The older I got, the more I realized that her moving away was the only thing that would “save her” from the trauma my dad put her through & that it was no easier for her than it was us. Now I’m 23 & we talk multiple times a day. I still don’t tell her every detail of my life, but she’s my go to for almost everything!

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8 - talk everyday even if we are thousands of miles apart. Hate when she nags especially about how I raise my kids haha but love her to bits.

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0. She stopped talking to me last year after my husband confronted her about walking all over me and past abuses.

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3. She’s controlling and I had therapy sessions working through the traumas she gave me and my father. I understand that my parents love me but she just forces everything on everyone. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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1- she was emotionally and physically abusive and whenever I do speak to her she still verbally abuses me. I will not have the luxury of missing my mom when she passes.

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0. She lives in a completely different country, so that helps too. I tried for years to have a relationship, but she screamed obscenities at me while I was holding my son when he was around 6 months old and I haven’t spoken to her since.

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I’m female. I’d rate it a 5 because I try not to hold grudges but I really just can’t be close to her. From a young age I knew I could never trust her (she would blab anything I’d tell her / she would find out to anyone with an ear). As a young adult her and my dad were both unemployed and they “borrowed” thousands of dollars from me (at the time I was a senior in high school / freshman in college) - when I asked about the money I was told they were not paying me back because they “let me live there for free”. I love her because she’s my mom, but there’s no real friendship outside of that.

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10 M - The woman sacrificed much to raise me. Regardless of her faults she gave it her all and I'm eternally grateful. I obviously am not trying to repeat her errors as I raise my children but I'm sure I'm making errors all of my own anyhow.

Anyway, love your parents and don't be so judgemental. Especially if you don't have kids and are young, once you have kids of your own you'll begin to understand so much more about your parents and your own upbringing.

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Once I had kids I realized how much of a mother she WASNT. It truly did bring into perspective my upbringing and how shitty it was.

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M here. It's a 10 for me. She has been my rock throughout
There is a definite male - female and female- female dynamic with this.

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I can attest to this dynamic. I am the 3rd child.

M and 0, she’s a cheat and liar. Grew up thinking mom was right/good for me - and when I became an adult found out not so much.

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I have cPTSD due to severe neglect from my narcissistic mother, so 0 due to her cutting ties with me when I was a teenager.
What prompted you to ask the question OP?

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I’m F and come from ex-USSR

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0 - my mother abandoned my family when I was 16, stole my fathers retirement money, and was physically and mentally abusive

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33 Indian M here. Not sure how I would rate my relationship with my mom. I’ll say 3-4 and a 5 on a good day. I don’t discredit her from raising me into the person I am today but there’s a lot of emotional abuse that has happened throughout the years growing up. I always thought of just cutting all contact with her and my dad (his is a whole different story) but I’m honestly afraid of how I would manage a lot of things since I was very dependent on my parents. I even took over paying the mortgage for the house even though I’ve been dreaming of moving out for a long while now. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t make sense to pay the same amount I currently do for my mortgage as rent instead. So now I feel stuck in my situation because we would lose the house to foreclosure since my dad has been out of work for more than a decade.

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I felt this so much as a child of immigrants who also has the burden of taking care of others. I sometimes think of how further along i’d be in life socially or financially if it weren’t for my family/culture. But going against the norm can be isolating and lead to being disowned, which sucks. I hope you find a happy medium 🫂

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Interesting to see so many perspectives of mother-child dynamic. I’m blessed enough to have a 10/10 if not 11/10 relationship with my mom. Wow.

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9.5

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10! We try to see each other 2-3x a month and talk on the phone every few days. We text daily.

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9.5

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