Tag: son
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Protected: Of Ambivalence, Epiphanies, and Sonnets of Compassion …
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Protected: Of SUV’s, Omnipotence and Depression …
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Of Mothers, Sons and Actions that Leave Us Eternally Changed…
Grace…., a photo by Acoustic Soul on Flickr. It always happens this way. A shooting takes place in our nation. A person and/or others are killed while going about their day. Voices cry out, those of the bereaved family members and others in shock and anger. Stories of the incident make a virulent trek across…
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Protected: Of Remembering, Mourning, and Striving to Become a Better Parent…
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Of Actions, Integrity and Trusting Our Choices…
In stating, “…mothers and daughters cannot serve as best friends to the other…,” Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer add in an excerpt from Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship , that the …basic question… a mother must answer is: “…Do you trust your daughter to be an…
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Of Breaths, Challenges and Handing Over the Reins…
“…[M]others and daughters can have a close bond, but should never take it to the level of being best friends…” say Susan Morris Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon, co-authors of Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship. “A best friend is different than a mother-daughter relationship,” says Shaffer in her…