I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.
I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
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