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She was more like a stranger to me. We are much closer now but when I was younger we didn't connect much.
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I am lucky enough to still have my mother. She did a very good job of keeping a balance. Sometimes you need a mother and sometimes you need a friend and I am glad she had the wisdom to know when was appropriate.
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She was definitely a mother and I was one of five. But we were becoming friends when she died at 59. I'm happy that we had both!
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My mum is the best! She is my mum, my best friend and role model. She is such a great person, all my friends and siblings friends come to her for advice, and they love her as their friend also.
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Close friend.
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My mum was like a mother to me when i was younger but now that im older and married she is like one of my best friends, we tell each other lots of stuff and i really value her opinion on things.
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Both, and neither. She was a really good mother until she got married, then she was my worst enemy for multiple reasons. Now she's more like a sister than anything - we don't always get along, fight all the time, love each other to death, and don't live together but miss each other greatly - because she knows she has no parental authority over me any longer, and hasn't for years. But I do miss my mommy.
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My mother is more like a chatty neighbor.
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She wasn't more like either. She was (and is) my mother.
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She is more like a mother. a very good mom and a strong person. raised her kids well. but i can't tell or share how i feel with her as i would with a close friend. she has her own way about looking at things..her own opinions. and she gets angry if i show that i disagree or voice my own thoughts about something. i avoid saying stuff that i know will start an argument. my close friends know and understand me better then my own mother. its been like this all these yrs even now when i am an adult. its ok..even though some times it upsets that i can't express my self to my own mother; i am grateful to God for giving me a loving mother.
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Both, enough of a friend that I could tell her anything, enough of a mother that she would always have motherly advise to give.
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My mom IS my best friend....period..;)
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She was a very kind mother.
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Neither,she was a thorn in my side,and a child at times.So were the other adults(Excludeing my father,of course).My older sister was more of a mother to me than anyone in my custodial home.*
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She was more like a mother when I was young but now that I,m older she is a mother and a friend.
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A mother, and a very loving one at that.
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Mom was Mom and I showed her the respect that came with the title....something kids lack now-a-days.......
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She was a mother while I was a child and is a friend now that I am an adult. We see each other several times a week and often vacation together.
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My mom is more of a mom.
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Friend.
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A great mom.
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More like a friend.
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Neither. She's more like an enemy.
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Im sorry but I have to neither. My mother had lots of mental issues that kept her from being a good friend or a mother. It is a myth that all women are meant to be mothers.
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It was wonderful to see mostly positive answers. You are all very lucky. You need to show them you love them every day!
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My Mother was as much a Mother as she could as both parents worked all the time. You hardly got to see your parents in the 60's and 70's!
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To me she is always a mom
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neither, my mother is a stranger
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she is and always will be my mother. I on the other hand have become more like a friend to my child..
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