I know there are people who don’t have great relationships with their mum. But who are still loved by then.
My story is that I grew up with a mum who never masked her dislike of me. She was not the same with my siblings, just me. Spent my childhood telling me she couldn’t stand me and putting me down whenever she could. I never knew why. I was and am a fairly normal human being I think and have gone on to have a good life with a good job, lovely husband and kids who I have good relationships with - our eldest can be difficult but we still manage to make it work and she knows how much I love her.
I left it far too late in life to cut ties with her and didn’t do so until well into adulthood. All hell broke loose when I did - I had to eventually block her in every way I could to stop the hate filled emails and texts. Too outing to post on here but she did a couple of truly awful things to me and my family in retaliation (not illegal, just incredibly cruel) that took me years to get over.
I’d say that I could confidently describe her as my worst enemy. There is very little she can do to us now as I have put so many barricades up to protect us but I know she bears me such enormous ill will and would derive great pleasure if something went wrong in my life. It is a horrible feeling as she is like this malevolent entity sometimes just on the edge of my consciousness. Thankfully she lives in another country so has no physical presence in our lives.
Most people I know are loved very much by their mums and I wondered if there is anyone else whose mum is like mine.