Are You Ready to Forgive Your Mother?

Sustaining anger and hatred toward your mother taints all your other relationships. It’s time to forgive.

Mommy Dearest

For much of the twentieth century, mommies were demonized in American Culture.

Perhaps it’s deserved, perhaps not.

Hating on mommy has certainly become popular.

And anywhere you find sad stories of parental abuse, particularly about mothers, you will find a mass fandom of mommy-haters piling on.

I had issues, like everyone else

I didn’t always get along with my own mother. Like all teens, I went from completely dependent at age 14 to completely independent at age 18.

That transition is not without conflict and lingering hard feelings.

Difficulties with parents are universal. Creating a victim narrative in which mommy was terrible has become far too common.