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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 743376" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Often when we think about these mother-child problems we think about the characteristics of the child, in this case a daughter. The daughter is difficult, demeaning, disrespectful, whatever.</p><p></p><p>The real issue is the mother, not her own faults or responsibilities but her own needs. How motivated is she to keep the relationship and on what terms? Many, many parents have difficult children. Very few terminate relationships. They find a way to live with the situation, and hopefully they change so that they are not so wounded by the relationship; in that they do not permit themselves to be wounded so, or they insulate their feelings so that when the child does act out, they do not feel the wounds so severely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 743376, member: 18958"] Often when we think about these mother-child problems we think about the characteristics of the child, in this case a daughter. The daughter is difficult, demeaning, disrespectful, whatever. The real issue is the mother, not her own faults or responsibilities but her own needs. How motivated is she to keep the relationship and on what terms? Many, many parents have difficult children. Very few terminate relationships. They find a way to live with the situation, and hopefully they change so that they are not so wounded by the relationship; in that they do not permit themselves to be wounded so, or they insulate their feelings so that when the child does act out, they do not feel the wounds so severely. [/QUOTE]
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