My mother didn't understand me...
By cripfemme
@cripfemme (7698)
United States
October 10, 2008 10:49pm CST
I love my mom, don't get me wrong. However, we couldn't be more different. I'm a hippie, artist. My mom is a practical, perfect women. We get along much better now that I have a little of my own money to contribute to the collective pot and am on my own and able to make my own decisions. We might not always agree, but there aren't real battles anymore as there were when I lived in her house, because all she can say is what she's going to say and I'm going to do what I do. I hope that she would just want me to be happy; I think that's what wants. I know that's what will want for my children when I have them. Can other daughters relate?
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@beautygunk (203)
• Philippines
11 Oct 08
My mom and myself are very different and yet I see a part of her in me if I really look hard. I know how turbulent relationships with moms can be during our early years, particularly the adolescent years! It's a time when we feel nobody understands us. I do not know how all moms endure that phase and i am pretty scared of going through what my mom went through. After we have all grown up and life has knocked sense into us, we then realize how much we need and love our moms.
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@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
11 Oct 08
I love my mom, I do. But I don't think we will ever agree politically or lifestylewise. We're just two different women that way. The key to our relationship is mutual respect and keeping out each other's way as much as possible. It might not work for everyone, but it works for us.
@donsky14 (5947)
• Philippines
11 Oct 08
Yeah I can relate with you. My mom is like this "girl girl" kinda woman, she's timid and stuff like that. Me on the other hand is kinda boyish, listens to rock music and hangs out with the boys. hehe. I'm not a tomboy though, I'm pretty straight. We have different taste in almost everything, fashion, food, perfumes and music.
But yeah, even with the differences, she still shows me how much she loves me and she accepts me for who I am..well, sometimes. lol
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
11 Oct 08
Mine's the same way. She's moving towards that whole "she accepts me for who I am..well, sometimes. lol..." thing, too. I was a tomboy growing up, too. We are very similar in experiences you and I.
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
11 Oct 08
I have always believed in one woman per kitchen so to speak, and this includes children when they grow up, we are no different than other animals, we women tend to make a nest and it is our nest and what goes on in that nest is usually the way the mother wants...I was like this with my mother too, I too have a hippy way of thinking and I love the freedom of todays women but before i left home things were very strained..my mother is gone now and i miss her but I still understand about chickens wanting to test their wings and fly away...to make their own nest and run their own kitchen...
@Shar1979 (2722)
• United States
11 Oct 08
same here. i'm really different from my mom and sometimes she just cant understand me and i cant understand her either. despite all that, i never hate my mom just coz she gets in my nerves sometimes coz we're different. she's still my mom and i do love her a lot
