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When Did We Become Our Mothers?

Discussion in 'People I Have Known' started by Mal Campbell, Jan 26, 2015.

  1. Mary Stetler

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    Nope. Never became my mother. She was a much better housewife than I am. She had me iron handkerchiefs and other small chores but it was easier for her to do everything herself.
    Wait a minute....
     
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    I don't behave like my mother (she was much nicer than me), but I do have her hands. I remember being weirded out the first time I noticed.
     
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    Many of us had ' beer drinkers and hell raisers ' in our family. Others had the 'mother's little helpers'. it is no better today really. Maybe we Boomers worse since the whole third world is now benefitting from our weakness.
    I don't know what to think about it.
     
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    I have moments of my mother's ways. But I am more like my dad than her. I consider this being one reason I am still here. Mom bless her was a bit weakish, I have more of a survivor attitude. :p
    But I am looking more like her all the time.
     
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    LOL, I felt the same way when I saw mamas hand come out of my sleeve. I had heard that saying before but never realized just how true it was or how much it would affect me.
     
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    Oddly, I have my dad's feet. :D:D
     
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    I made a point of not becoming my mother.
    My mother was an abusive, controlling, raging witch & also a racist. Anyone who wasn't white & Jewish was trash in her mind. I never met her parents but I wondered what kind of cretins they were. I often made my dad LOL by asking him, "What the hell were you thinking before that second date?"
    Unfortunately, my brother is just like her; which is why my sister & I have nothing to do with him. He was the only one who attended her funeral.
     
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    So sad, my father and her would have got along. my brother and I made a point of not being that way. I laugh I have 11 great grand kids. all but 2 are biracial -- yep he is grave turning.
     
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