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
Men who were there but not there, who said they loved me but had too many problems of their own to make me feel it. Almost all of them had one thing in common with Mama Jo: they had lost their fathers when they were young (literally or figuratively), they had no brothers, and their mothers never remarried—or at least not while the sons still lived
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therapist, “I don’t get it. The first chance I had to break away from Mama Jo, I took it. Yet I keep being attracted to men like her.”
Jo Maeder • When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters - and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo
“You were at the critical age of fourteen when you won your father from your mother in their divorce,” she explained. “That’s why men who are stable and always there for you —as your father was—don’t appeal to you. You aren’t supposed to be attracted to Daddy.”