To ask whether you're turning (or have turned) into your mother?

[mumofoneAlonebutokay]

I caught myself today repeating one of my cockney mums sayings to dd

Although we're estranged, I'm definitely turning into mine. Fingers crossed I don't get her early menopause 😩

Edited to add that I was so happy about getting 4 x steaks from lidl today and planning tonight's dinner. My dm would be the same about a bargain 😄😄

Oh without a doubt, and my husband and DH often laugh about it together.

Sadly, oh no 😄

I look extremely similar to my mum abd always have done. I'm very much like her in personality too but also like my dad.

Yes, sadly she died 15 years ago when I was 30, but I really recognise her in me now I’m a bit older. Wandering around charity shops for one - which I always hated and grumbled about as a child. I think I would have had a lot in common with her now I’m older - sadly I haven’t had the opportunity and I miss her terribly still.

😄😄😄 she sounds hilarious

I suspect I'll be the same when if I get to that age, I do ramble a bit now

I am not very similar to my mum at all. She's lovely and we get on well, we're just very different in lots of ways. I'll be surprised if I turn into her which is lucky as DH says he'll divorce me if I do.

Im sorry for your loss ❤️ - she's still with you I'm sure, probably smiling at you walking around the charity shops x

@mumofoneAlonebutokay Thankyou xxx

No, much more like my dad. My mum (died when I was early teens) was very much into TV, fashion magazines, that sort of thing. Not very political and had bloody awful taste in music. 🤣 Lovely woman! But we're very much opposite. Dad was sarcastic, into his books, politics, played guitar and wrote a lot. Very active and adventurous whereas mum was a homebody. Sometimes I'll say something or even pull a face, and my siblings are all "Oh, back from the dead, dad?!"
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Yes!!! 🤣😭😱😁

Lush is the perfect word. She was loved by everyone who met her. I miss her dreadfully.

Just her sneeze. It irritates the fuck out of me every time.

I can see my mum’s mannerisms coming out - rubbing some life back into my puffy face in the morning, using my teacher voice when speaking to children in school (she’s a teacher, I volunteer helping with reading). I don’t really mind, my mum is awesome.

Apparently our physical mannerisms are incredibly similar. My DH still laughs about taking my mum with us to the cinema. and the synchronised movements from us in his peripheral vision. We didn't notice until he snorted when we both leant forward, tilted our heads and adjusted our respective pairs of glasses simultaneously as a particularly attractive male actor walked on screen in just pants.

Accelerating rapidly down that particular slippery slope. DH has taken to looking at me meaningfully when I’m particularly DM like. He is turning into his father, so can’t talk!

I take after my mum physically, but tend to think my personality traits were inherited from my father. Both are gone now. Although I do catch myself saying some of her little sayings!

I am.

I realise how right she was about so many things. Comfy knickers, shoes and coats that cover your bum for example!

I definitely am. Sometimes we say things in unison and we joke my husband gets a shiver down his spine and wonders why 🤣 We also frequently go to call or text eachother at the same time. I've started getting fussy about how the curtains look when they're drawn, which I was never arsed about before. I remember affectionately teasing my mum about how it took her a year to finish a book - shockingly now I'm a mum I kinda get it 🤣

As long as we don't end up turning into HER mum, we'll be ok. Loved my batty old nan to bits, but she really was absolutely nuts (even when she was young, apparently) and could be incredibly difficult to live with.

My mum is so lovely it's an honour when people say I'm turning into her

i bloody hope not! i spent years and years worried that this would happen, so much so, i had to have theraphy! my mother groomed us all from a very young age.

i vowed, i would never ever be like her

I think so as I’ve just bought react-to-light varifocal glasses!

Yep I definitely do this.... from always having a packet of polo mints to feeling happy when I get a bargain 🤣🤣 my sons call them nannyeisms 🤣🤣

Bloody hell I hope not.

Sadly, she recently passed.

Her 'best friend' has been really cut up about it she absolutely loved my mum. Thankfully she never heard what my mum said about her to me. Similarly my mum's neighbours.

I hope I never turn into someone who runs down the people who love them to others.

No I’m the opposite of my mum. I made sure of it.

She was always judgemental, always “right”, hard, just never an accepting easy going woman.

Edited to add: apologies I just realised it’s meant to be a lighthearted thread.

I am. I consider this stage in my life full actualization.

My mum is awesome.