Bond Between Mother And Daughter
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Submitted by lashmk on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Bond Between Mother And Daughter
The bond that mothers and daughters share is a bond that affects your entire life. Lessons on life are learned by each individual during the first few days of their daughters' life. You are filled with high expectations for your daughter. You hope that your daughters' life will be better than your own. You hope that you will be the best mother that you can possibly be. These hopes are met with expectations from your wondering daughter. Your daughter looks to you for guidance and love. She depends on you for her very survival. It is evident to both of you that a new era in each of your lives has just begun.
The basis for happy relations between mother and daughter is a question I ask myself, especially when I became a mother for a daughter. You may have enjoyed a satisfying and rewarding relationship with your own mother and want to replicate it, or you may have had disappointing relationship and want to avoid repeating it with your daughter. Whatever the relationship was your desire is to have deep and lasting connections with your daughter. The ways in which you respond to your daughter depends on your own history: how you were regarded in your own family, your upbringing, and your experiences since then. "It's been said that there are always ghosts in the nursery, and I agree entirely with that. It's never just you and the baby. There is always so much more going on "(Dr Tam Luu, 2002).
"We invest mothers with awesome powers, with, the ability to smooth all hurts, right all wrongs, to nurture without any concept of self" (Edelman, p 25). Millions of words have been written in an attempt to explain the bond between mothers and daughters. Like every daughter throughout time, my own relationship with my mother has always been complex and disturbing. My mother is an incredible woman. She pushes and pulls my emotions. She has the ability to crush me and sooth me (sometimes in the same sentence). I am most passionate in my...
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