“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.” -Erich Fromm
The umbilical cord is cut after a women gives birth to a child. I say there is an invisible cord that is never severed. A child does not understand this. The mother understands and knows this. She feels the attachment to her heart her whole life. When your children are away from you, the cord is stretched but never broken.
Happy Mother’s Day ❤
I am a parent, a mother. I am not sure if the intensity of feelings is the same for fathers or others. There are different kinds of parents, different genders of parents. But I can only speak for myself and say this is how I feel about being a mother/parent. I originally posted this last year for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. I think it is still relevant for this Mother’s Day. The prompt this year is “parent.”
Beautiful way of saying that. 🙂
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Thank You ❤ Happy Mother's Day.
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Excellently put, Deborah.
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Thanks Anna. ❤
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Beautiful words, hope you had a lovely time xx
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Thank You ❤
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I feel the stretching of the chord, but not so alone in it as I read this. Thank you 🙂
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❤
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I love what you say here
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Thank You very much.
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Really beautiful and exactly right.
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Thank You, Clee ❤
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Very well put!
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Thank You, Damyanti. ❤
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