Category Archives: Family
Single mother’s dating
For five years, I was a single mother with two boys. And even though I was lucky enough to have a steady guy (a single dad) in the picture, questions came up all the time. Was it okay for all of us to sleep over at one of our houses? Should we take vacations together? When this relationship ended and another one began a few months later, I was in uncharted waters again.
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Mother daughter relationships
ne of the earliest and most profound bonds women form with each other is that of mother and daughter. At the beginning of mother daughter relationships when you’re just a child, you think your mother is a goddess. You smudge your face with her lipstick and wear her jewelry and high heels, desiring to be just like your mum. It is like that until you are about thirteen, when she abruptly becomes the most uninformed, irrelevant, off the planet dragon around, and you can’t get far enough away from her. In the rough and tough teen years of mother daughter relationships, the main form of communication for the next five years or so will be a few words, “No way mum!” And then, somewhere amid your twenties and thirties, if you’re fortunate, she becomes your greatest buddy again.
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Father Daughter relationship
“The father-daughter bond is a prototype for male-female relationships for the daughter and offers positive mental health and self-esteem to the father,” says Frederick B. Phillips, Ph.D., founder of the Progressive Life Center in Washington, D.C., which offers an array of psychological services. “Within the framework of this relationship, the daughter has the opportunity to develop here womanliness, as contrasted with male energy. She can test out her female energy in a safe, nonsexual relationship. Fathers can realize stronger and truer self-esteem by receiving pure love, not to be confused with sexuality.”





















