Posted by bigbird on November 2, 2009, 8:00 am, in reply to "Re: QUESTION: do you feel like your mother "got you" or "didn't get you"?"
don't want to hi-jack the post, but thought you all might like to read a funny story...so my mom&dad come to our house every other year (3000 plus miles away), anyway, the h and my dad were out hunting it was a non-school day, maybe two years ago or so, my mom and myself along with my two daughters were playing the game of "life", we like to play alot of games...anyway, so when you hit the square where it says you got married pick your little blue or pink peg...i picked a pink one, my mom bust out laughin and gave me the look....my girls are oblivious to any of this, well at least i think they are, idk, but back in the day i would always bring the girls home to meet mom...long short of it, we laughed thru-out the game over it because i never once landed on one of those squares where you have children (and really there are plenty of them, there actually hard to miss)...weird..guess the moral of the story is, at least i have two awesome daughters that came from my wrong turn in the road.. 
sorry, a little wordy....
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: Neither my mother nor my father was
: particularly connected to us kids.
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: It always seemed that my mom would have
: preferred not to have had children. I
: received only negative and never positive
: reinforcement from her while growing up.
: She never gave us any guidance, only
: punished us if we disappointed her. My dad,
: like most dads of the time, was not really
: involved in parenting decisions.
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: When my mother suspected that I had a gf at
: around age 20, she confronted me by asking,
: "are you sleeping with __?",
: Really cold.
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