Re: Re: mothers and daughters

[Guest guest]

Thank you for that response Ruthie

I am under no misconception that I am or ever was 'the perfect daughter'

(is there such a thing?) I think what I was trying to do was communicate

with my mother in an adult way - and therefore get an adult response.

I'm not sure that she is ready or willing to do that - the closest I got

was her admitting that she has enough guilt of her own to deal with and

therefore is unable to take on any 'criticism (implied or otherwise)

from me.

I'm just not sure where I go from here.

One of the positive things to emerge from this is that it was the first

'challenging' conversation I have had with my mother where I didn't

dissolve into tears and become a snivelling wreck.

Claire