A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.
There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.
Everything I see, I now see through a mother's eyes.
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.
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