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 😄😄

I'm much more like my dad tbh, without the alcohol and fags!

I don't know my dad or his side of the family as 'people' as it were because I haven't had contact since I was in my teens, over 20 years ago, so I don't really know if I'm like any of them at all.

All the women on my mum's side have very similar traits, although I look more like my dad we all seem to have very similar mannerisms and ways of speaking - people can tell we're related from that, aunts, cousins etc.

DM and I are very different people, but I've learned that we were similar as teens and young women, but that side of her was hidden from me until recently.

I have however caught myself saying things that she does without thinking, and running through the whole families names including the animals until I get the right one, but maybe that's just universal 🤣

@suki1964
My DH and DS have given me fair warning that they'll shoot me if I turn into my Mother.

I am turning into mine right now. My mum never wanted to share a house with another man after separating from my father. So much so that her boyfriend of 10+ years has never spent a night in her flat. I find their relationship cute but strange. Fast forward to now.. I separated from my partner not long ago and I am in the process of buying a property and last week I had a thought "I never want to live with another man again. I just want my safe little flat and a long-term date on a side". Whoopsie

More my dad. I seem to look more like him as I get older.

I am estranged and although she is bright and articulate and very creative she is not a nice person. She melodramatic and demanding, she fakes illness etc - so no. I am starting to look like her at 50 though and I’ve put on weight like her so it’s a good incentive to get fit and lean.

I have become my father. I even look like him.

Nope.

Not yet anyway, I can stop talking for longer than 20 secs (not an exaggeration, I timed any break in her talking during a one hour drive recently).

Long been prepared for turning into my mother, what I didn't expect was turning into my grandmother...

Is she a thought verbaliser? My mum is and it is quite something to behold!

I wish I was just half the woman / person my Mum is but alas I will never be like her.

No worries, every experience is valid x

I share this sentiment - people fear single mums because tbh life is better this way, with no man in my house 🙄

*for me

No, we're incredibly different people.

I am, however, increasingly beginning to resemble my grandfather (on a personality level at least), which is a slightly weird turn of events.

No, we are very different women

After a certain age, I think more and more women just want to live on their own and not cohabit, maybe men are the same

No - I've accidentally turned into my dad, minus the beard

You're lucky.
I got my dad's.

If i could turn into my mum i would in a minute. She had such a great way about her, not a worrier or a procrastinator or an anxious sort. Just always calm and level headed.

I wish i was her.

@KnopkaPixie your mum's hilarious. 😂😂

That's not singing that's shouting - about modern singers, I say the same now - some of it is dire.

You must be my sister.

Ew no.

I hope not - she's an awful woman. Occasionally, I catch myself being like her, so I do work very hard to correct myself.

Yes, because I have inherited her long, middle aged curly random eyebrow hairs. I also keep a box of cards under the stairs and buy cheap Christmas cards and crackers in January.