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Thursday, March 22, 2007
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Twenty-Something and Single: Fear
By K. C. Morgan
My mother can’t seem to make a relationship work. She even has trouble making one work with me. It’s gotten much easier now that we’re both adults (as mother-daughter relationships usually do), but for a while it was a little rocky. The thing is, I can’t break up with her because I’m her daughter. And on some level, she knows it. Some innate sense of self-preservation let my mother know that she’d better do something to safeguard her own future. And so, she had me.
I am now the same age she was when she had her only child. And though she has routinely been in my ear about it, I’ve decided to never have children. That’s just not something that I can handle, and I know it. Do I not have this same sense of preservation, or do I not need it, because I will –one day- no longer be alone? ...
To read the rest of this article in Hot Psychology Magazine, click here.
For more from this talented writer, click here.
My mother can’t seem to make a relationship work. She even has trouble making one work with me. It’s gotten much easier now that we’re both adults (as mother-daughter relationships usually do), but for a while it was a little rocky. The thing is, I can’t break up with her because I’m her daughter. And on some level, she knows it. Some innate sense of self-preservation let my mother know that she’d better do something to safeguard her own future. And so, she had me.
I am now the same age she was when she had her only child. And though she has routinely been in my ear about it, I’ve decided to never have children. That’s just not something that I can handle, and I know it. Do I not have this same sense of preservation, or do I not need it, because I will –one day- no longer be alone? ...
To read the rest of this article in Hot Psychology Magazine, click here.
For more from this talented writer, click here.
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