A Day To Say Goodbye To Old Grudges:
Untangling Mother-Daughter Ties
Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post50
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.