When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters - and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo
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When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters - and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo
Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance
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Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist... What a terrible burden for children to bear—to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible bu... See more
glennon doyle • Untamed by Glennon Doyle
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
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She then transferred her idealization onto her son and conscripted him into being her replacement “emotional husband.” She told him that he was “Mommy’s little man” and implied that he was somehow better than his father.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
Now I know that when I feel tempted to lose myself in a relationship, my inner child is yearning for the parental approval she never received. I am her source of validation, not anyone else.
Rokelle Lerner • Affirmations for the Inner Child
As I will explain in the chapters that follow, many don’t dare to uncover the painful truth of what was missing in their mothers because they are unprepared to deal with what this would mean.