Mothering as a Brief Timeline of Overarching Disappointment

My relationship with my daughter will always be complicated

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Being a mother was something I always wanted, despite (or because of?) my own childhood. Let’s just say my own mother was less than nurturing and had a violent, nasty streak that meant my psyche was hammered out on an anvil of fear, forged in survival. I knew I…