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Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

All mothers go through the exact same things.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.

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.