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To cry every time I hear Slipping through my fingers in Mamma Mia

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crazy8 · 12/02/2013 23:44

I have a gorgeous, beautiful sometimes bratty DD who is 7. I can't imagine her growing up and leaving home. I know it will happen one day.

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BsshBossh · 15/02/2013 19:41

Abitwobblynow wise words indeed. I really need to hear that so thank you. Which Winnicot book is that?

Floggingmolly · 15/02/2013 19:43

This keeps getting pushed to the top of threads I'm on, and setting me off again...

determinedma · 15/02/2013 19:51

Oh for heavens sake,either you are all hopelessly clingy or I am missing the maternal gene ( which is entirely possible). Dd1 is au pairing in Spain and I only see her every few months, and dd2 announced last night she has "found a family" and will be off to Italy to au pair and " probably come back in autumn". So what? I am happy they are confident individuals who can do their own thing and no, I don't pine for them when they are away. They are adults. They come back from time to time and I regain my life a little when they are away.

coldcupoftea · 15/02/2013 20:00

To all you fellow emotional mums of daughters I give you Daughter by Loudon Wainwright

It's the song played at the end of Knocked Up, and it makes me weep buckets just thinking about it!

SilverMoo · 15/02/2013 20:33

Argh! Just watched it on youtube and am now sobbing Sad Blush

Cuddlyrunner · 15/02/2013 20:35

I haven't got a daughter, I WANT ONE!

sugarplumpfairy · 15/02/2013 20:37

I remember drinking gin and tonic, torturing myself by playing this the night before my youngest DD started school in sept. I was wailing to DP ''That's it, and now i'm baron cos i've had a hysterectomy, they'll grow up and shove us in a home, what if I haven't done enough glueing and sticking? blah blah........'' DP just humoured me and escorted me to bed Grin
It always makes me VERY emotional, gin or not!

SilverMoo · 15/02/2013 20:37

I heard it the first time when I watched Mama Mia, I was properly sobbing, I haven't watched it since due to that reaction, glad I'm not the only one!

Snowkey · 15/02/2013 20:40

Always feel emotional listening to this song too - often need to give dd a bit cuddle.

missymayhemsmum · 15/02/2013 20:42

Oh me too! Tucked up on sofa watching it with DD aged 21 sharing a bottle of wine I was in floods! So many things we didn't do because I was busy making the everyday stuff work, and then you turn round and the years have gone and she doesn't need you anymore. It's a great song.
(Didn't stop me being delighted when DD found her direction and moved out again though. Two women in one kitchen-nuff said)

handbagsatdawn · 15/02/2013 20:51

Oh crickey I thought it was just me! I used to listen to this song when I was little, and back then it was just a song. Now I have 2 dds and the words only hit me when I watched MM at the cinema. Blubbing my eyes out. Gets me every time now.

chickydoo · 15/02/2013 21:40

My DD is 17, not long until she goes, it's going to break my heart

TheStitchWitch · 16/02/2013 20:07

Mamma Mia on ITV2 now

trikken · 16/02/2013 20:25

watching it here too.

ihateconflict · 16/02/2013 20:44

this song is on tv now, and it takes me back to when my daughter left for uni 4 years ago, during the weeks leading to her departure, the pain in my chest was actually physical, once we had actually dropped her off, i was absolutely fine fine, it was the lead up time that was the woerst. This song, and white winter hymnal by fleet foxes, both take me back to sept 2009 in an instant, i love both songs!!

Hassled · 16/02/2013 20:48

I saw that bloody film (Mamma Mia) with DD the night before she left for University. That song came on - we were both awash with tears and snot - full on hysterical, wracking sobs. God knows what the people around us thought. Only the cocktails later restored any sort of normality.

OverAndAbove · 16/02/2013 20:52

It's just been on, right now. Floods of tears; from me and the baby-father-of-the-girl. It is a very good song!

Juniper21 · 16/02/2013 21:17

The writer of Mamma Mia put the song in the musical/movie as it reflected her feelings for her own daughter.

saycheeeeeese · 16/02/2013 21:23

I think Linda Ulvaeus must have a hard time hearing it knowing its about her!

My mum used to sing it to me when I was a child in the 80s, she cries when she hears it now!

JumpHerWho · 16/02/2013 21:32

So glad I'm not alone in finding this song utterly gorgeously sad!

Off to listen to Beautiful Boy and When You Dream, I have a toddling (sob) baby boy.

izzysmydog · 16/02/2013 21:37

My wonderful daughter just turned 16!! I can't believe it's gone so fast. We both give hugs when that song comes on. She thinks she's fat ( she's not!) and she has had a bad time with acne and she doesn't understand how much I love her... And I split up with her dad when she was 5 and her stepfather is good but not demonstrative at all! Sometimes I think I really fucked up but then that song will come on and she knows I love her so much and I didn't do so bad after all xx

maddening · 16/02/2013 23:06

And all of us are daughters - beth orton's time will pass is another tear jerker

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