A Day To Say Goodbye To Old Grudges:
Untangling Mother-Daughter Ties
Suzanne Braun Levine
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Like many women in midlife, I find Mother’s Day as much a reminder of a fraught relationship as a celebration of motherhood.
Even if we are not caring for our mothers, and even if we rarely spend time with them — even, as in my case, they are no longer alive — the emotional status of our relationship with them is a major factor in our ongoing reinvention. The intimacy between a woman and the woman who gave birth to her has its own unique mix of physical, psychological and gender forces within each of them.
CAN MEN HAVE IT ALL?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MEN
PUT FAMILY FIRST?
5 Organizations that Support Fathers & Families In 2000, my book “Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First” was published. It was the result of my exploration into the uncharted territory of “shared parenting.” There were pioneers everywhere, but they were few and far between. As I wrote then, “My first clue was […]