Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started appearing.
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
I think mothers get a raw deal in American culture, so I've been defending them. I have three daughters, and I know that as they become mothers, they got a lot more gentle towards me!
Every father and son have conflicts.
My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.
There is no overt rivalry among our children.