Posted by Sigismund on March 12, 2009, at 20:09:20
In reply to seeking parent's approval., posted by catlady on March 11, 2009, at 20:52:33
You are sharing an irritation and a conflict over a form of approval. At that point, that is you and your mother, what you have together.
I used to go home and my mother would give me chapter and verse about all the achievements of her friends' children, which I was fairly stoical about, because by the end of the evening I felt like I needed a general anaesthetic with a high opiate component.
It is not impossible in the future that you both might wish to be friends, where nothing much matters, except the fact that you are alive to talk to each other.
My kids have kind of grown up now. As long as they don't disapprove of me too much I find it easy to think they are pretty good too, under most circumstances. We're just passing through. Earth is a lovely place to visit, but you wouldn't want to stay there forever.
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