Last Sunday was Mother's Day, a Hallmark holiday as fraught with ambivalence as any. As I read friends' tributes to their living or dead mothers on Facebook, I wondered why I never really cared much about the day, either as daughter or mother. Girl's relationships with their mothers are always complicated, and sometimes full of hurt. So I was glad to see
this article saluting those who have had to break with toxic mothers, or who managed to maintain relationships by setting careful limits.
And in this country that praises motherhood in the abstract while making it more and more difficult every day, I was also glad to see this recognition of our tendency to blame mothers for having to stretch meager (and diminishing) resources.
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