Is/was your mother very 'motherly'?... Mine never was... she always tried to compete with me and my sister...
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Yes. Although she was very young, she was quite motherly. All of my friends loved and respected her.
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When she was sober, she was the best.
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Maybe for a year or two.
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I don't know if she is "motherly", but she did care for me very much. Sorry you're mother wasn't so "motherly", but at least you had your father :)
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My mother was very motherly when she was home. She worked many hours on two jobs to make ends meet as my father had a drinking problem. But my mother was a saint of a woman who made sure her children were raised with good morals which she taught well. She taught my oldest sister how to fill in for her when she could not be there so we always had someone to come to when we needed that motherly love and she could not be there, but she always found time when she got home to make sure we were taken care of.
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Yes she was; bless her soul.
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I'm sorry to hear that. My mother was. It appears that I was very lucky.
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When she felt like it, you might get some attention. Might.
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Yes- Mother is...she is the kind of mom that make chocolate chip pancakes or banana bread when you wake up on the weekends...she still does when I visit!! I am 24 and still get to pick what my bday dinner is and what kind of cake I want. i can still call her and ask for her advice (even though sometimes I don't take it) I know I can always move back home if I need to for financial and/or emotional reasons...I have a really great mom. Part of my fear of having kids is that I will never be that great of a mom...
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If motherly means nurturing or similiar then-My birth mother is not very motherly,she is probably too ill, my adopted mother can be motherly at times but also quite vicious.
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No, my mother is not very motherly in the nurturing kind of way. She was/is bi-polar and has never had that addressed. Mom made sure our basic needs were taken care of but never encouraged us in anything or otherwise tried to prepare us for life. For an example the last visit with her she fed us our favorite foods (yum), then proceeded with unsolicited 'motherly advice' which was, "You need to lose some weight to keep your husband happy." I love you, too, Mom.
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She tried to be.......
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ma mother does the same, makes me and my sis compete against one another of "who is better", dat is why me and my sista have problems gettin along today, :(.. parents usualy favour one child over another, as one child would always be seen as the "the golden child" and the other as da "rebel"
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My mother is very motherly. Even now, when I'm a grandmother, if I sound sick on the phone, my mom is telling me I need to get to the doctor. Then she'll tell my husband the things he needs to do to take care of me (of course, he will already have done all she recommends, but it makes her feel better).
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My mother dropped me off at my grandmothers house when I was 6 monthes old and said she was going to work. Well 15 years later she showed up on my 16th birthday trying to be a mother. So I guess you could say she wasn't. I'm 30 now and I never talked to her. Since my grandmother raised me I guess she was the motherly one.
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She is "mother incarnate".
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My mother was what a mother should be. Sadly, she passed away 15 years ago tonight.
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She is just as motherly as she is ever going to need to be. She's not the greatest mother in the world, but I could do worse.
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i unfortunately have an idiot for a mother, she seems to have enough common sense to not hurt herself while walking around, but few enough brain cells that by the time i was 13 i was smarter than her, and now, 2 years on, i am much, much smarter than her in almost every way, and im not even that smart, although i think about things waay too much, but then again i have school, so thats at least 3 hours a day (other 3 im working or talkng :D) i just think randomly :) so no shes not motherly, just stupid.
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My mother has always been more sisterly, or even daughterly at times. She was never really a "eat your veggies or you're grounded" person. Sometimes it's a little annoying, but I wouldn't change it if I could.
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Yes,she was awesome!I miss her alot.
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My mother was very over protective of me and my 7 sisters. We could never go to parties, or movies, We were not allowed to date until we were 18.
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She was a great Mother quite strict in some ways great fun in others. I did not spend enough time at home to say she was very Motherly. I would say she has become more Motherly as she has got older.
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We grew up in a bit of a madhouse. She was pretty affectionate but my father wasn't. Out of nine kids I am the most affectionate to my children.
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Yup, but acted also like a best friend. I still remember all my brother's friend calling her 'mom'
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The "mother" was more of a sadistic,abusive, evil b*tch..not at all motherly :)
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Aw.. shame. I was lucky. Mine was the perfect "mumsy-mum" - she had 10 kids and devoted her life to them and their happiness. Sadly she died when I was only 23. But I was lucky to have her even for that short time.
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She is as much my mother as she is my best friend. We work together and live around the corner from each other. She was a little strict on my sis and me when we were teenagers, but I always knew why. I'll probably be the same way with my girl. I'm 24 years old and still sit on her lap and tell her my problems. But just like best friends, there are times when we want to strangle each other...I think she even tried once.....
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My mom is a great mother. I was kinda mad at her back in the day when she split up with my dad, but a couple years back him and I had a heart to heart and he explained to me that he treated her like shit and that's why he lost her. It really opened my eyes to how my mom felt. Kinda made me feel like shit for resenting her for the divorce. Her selection of men is way off cuz my stepdad is a tool, but that's a whole different story altogether. As for you, I hope you still have the chance to talk to her about your feelings. It really helps... at least it helped me. Good luck. (just re-read this... man I sound like a pussy. lol)
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Are you my sister???
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Are you my sister???
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