all about our mothers
Most of us spend a minimum of 18 years living with our mom and, from the first time that someone related to us the cliché that all women become their mothers, a lot of us strive not to be the things we find most annoying about that particular parent. I identified the parts of my mother I didn't want to become at a relatively young age. I didn't want to be jealous, I didn't want to be rigid, I didn't want to hew to outdated stereotypes of how one's house should look when one has company and I didn't want to make an irrationally large deal out of things that weren't. This is not at all to say that my mother doesn't have many fine qualities as a mother, wife, friend or woman, but everyone has their flaws and those were the ones I didn't want to emulate. My plan to not become my mother has worked out about as well for me as it does for everyone, which is to say it mostly
hasn't at all.
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